核心畫面
A pointing finger that says 'this particular one, the one we both have in mind' — the picks out a known, definite thing from everything else, instead of just any one.
可以想成一根指著東西的手指，意思是「就是這個、我們心裡都清楚的那一個」。the 把一個「已知、確定」的東西從眾多之中…更多收起
可以想成一根指著東西的手指，意思是「就是這個、我們心裡都清楚的那一個」。the 把一個「已知、確定」的東西從眾多之中圈出來，不是隨便哪一個。各種用法多半從這個「指定、特指」的動作延伸出去。原始詞典資料19 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。
thearticle詞源 1/ðə/
- 1
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- I’m reading the book Mary reviewed. (Compare I’m reading a book Mary reviewed.)
- You live on Main Street, don't you? You know, you should tell the mayor the street needs cleaning.
- 2
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
- God save the Queen!
- 3
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- No one in the whole country had seen it before.
- I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
- 4
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
- (informal) How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")
- 5
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- How's the Sal today?
- 6
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater
- 7
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
- "Good Heavens, man! Why, he is the authority. If you want pure laboratory experiments those are the books."
- 8
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- "My name," he said, "is Hercule Poirot." "Not," the Commissary stammered, "not the Hercule Poirot?"
- ‘[…] he introduced us to Gwenog Jones.’ ‘Gwenog Jones?’ said Ron, his eyes widening under his own goggles. ‘The Gwenog Jones? Captain of the Holyhead Harpies?’
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- That was the juiciest apple pie ever.
- May the better man win.
- 10
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.
- The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
- 11
Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
- The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
- 12
Used with an adjective
- That apple pie was the best.
- 13
Used with an adjective
- Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
- One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces; the white are assigned to the player who moves first.
- 14
Used with an adjective
- the Irish are...; the Chinese are...; the French are...
theadv詞源 2/ðə/
- 1
With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
- The hotter(,) the better. (comma usually omitted in such very short expressions)
- The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
- 2
With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
- It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
- It was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.
- 3
Beyond all others.
- We went the furthest under her leadership.
- They trusted him the most.
theprep詞源 3/ðə/
- 1
For each; per.
- valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest
- Next morning I was up at an early hour, to see the market held near the water gate. The beef was excellent: but at the high prices of ten-pence and one shilling the pound; mutton at the same price; fowls a dollar the couple, and showing “more feathers than flesh.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。