核心畫面
The speaker, plus at least one other person, standing together as the people something is done TO or aimed AT — the 'me-and-them' group seen as a target, not as the .
可以想成:說話的「我」再加上身邊一個或更多人,圍成一個小團體,而這個團體是動作落下來的一方——別人在看「我們」、給「…更多收起
可以想成:說話的「我」再加上身邊一個或更多人,圍成一個小團體,而這個團體是動作落下來的一方——別人在看「我們」、給「我們」、幫「我們」。它跟 we 是同一群人,差別只在 we 是出手的那一方、us 是被指向的那一方(She told us、between us)。原始詞典資料21 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。
uspron詞源 1/əs/
- 1
Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
- Don't treat us like idiots.
- 2
Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
- Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
- 3
We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
- Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
- Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
- 4
Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
- It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
- I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.
- 5
People in general.
- Grief ages us.
- 6
The person(s) being addressed.
- Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.
- 7
Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
- Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...
- 8
Me.
- Give us a look at your paper.
- Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
Me (in all contexts).
- Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
- Could ye dee that for us?
usdet詞源 1/əs/
- 1
Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
- It's not good enough for us teachers.
- 2
Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
- Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.
- 3
Our.
- We'll have to throw us food out.
usnoun詞源 1/əs/
- 1
informalThe relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person.
- There is no us.
- Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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。