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Shouldst is an old form of should, used when you are talking to one person with thou (the old word for you). Thou shouldst means you should. The meaning is not different from should; only the grammar costume is old. You will meet it in the Bible, in Shakespeare, in hymns, and in stories that want to sound like the past. Nobody uses it in ordinary talk now, except as a joke, in a play, or when someone is pretending to be a knight. If a sentence has you instead of thou, the form is should, not shouldst.
古體的 should(thou shouldst=你應當)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。