喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture them as the word that points back at a group already mentioned — 'those ones we were just talking about', now on the receiving end of the action. It is the hand that gestures toward several people or things without naming them again.

可以把 them 想成一個「往回指」的字：指向前面已經提過的那一群人或東西——「剛剛在講的那幾個」，而且這次他們是承…更多收起可以把 them 想成一個「往回指」的字：指向前面已經提過的那一群人或東西——「剛剛在講的那幾個」，而且這次他們是承受動作的一方（被看、被給、被找的對象）。像是用手往那群人那邊一比，不必再把名字講一遍。這個「回指那一群」就是 them 各用法的底。

原始詞典資料13 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。

thempron/ˈðɛm/

  • 1

    Those ones.

    • She treated them for a cold.
    • Proponents of adding a gender-neutral option to state identification documents say it would remove a form of discrimination against nonbinary people by providing them with the means to carry identification that matches their identity.
  • 2

    Those ones.

    • She wrote them a letter.
  • 3

    Those ones.

    • Give it to them.
  • 4

    Those ones.

    • [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
    • […]Illinois, told Christina Holmes Tillson (just arrived from Connecticut herself) : “I am getting skeery about them 'ere Yankees. There is such a power of them coming in that them and the Injuns will squatch out [everyone else].
  • 5

    Those ones.

    • Who was there? —Them.
    • Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
  • 6

    A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

    • If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
    • If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, […] [t]hen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
  • 7

    A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

    • If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.
  • 8

    A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

    • If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
    • Each adolescent girl with ASD has needs specific to her because each of them has variable characteristics and different degrees of sensory and perceptual difficulties.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

    • "[…] he said that everybody was being watched, and if they seen anybody giving Union cards to anybody on Company property, that them and the person receiving the card, they would both be fired.
  • 10

    A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

    • Who was there? —Them.
    • Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
  • 11

    dialectalThey or those.

    • I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.
    • And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

themnoun/ˈðɛm/

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    Synonym of they (“a non-binary person”).

themdet/ˈðɛm/

  • 1

    dialectalThose.

    • Gimme two of them yellow ones.
    • How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?

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。