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.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。