喜樂美語
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    /wɜːr/ · /wɜː/

    The past tense form of 'be', used with you, we, they, or a plural noun to say what something was like or where it was in the past.

    是／在（過去式，複數）

    過去式 waswere

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

Were is simply 'be' put into the past for you / we / they / a plural subject — the word that says how things stood or where they were at some earlier time. Picture pointing back in time at more than one thing and saying what was true of them then: 'they were happy', 'the keys were on the table'.

可以想成 were 就是 be 放進過去、專門配 you／we／they 或複數主詞的形態——用來說「過去的時候，這…更多收起可以想成 were 就是 be 放進過去、專門配 you／we／they 或複數主詞的形態——用來說「過去的時候，這些東西是什麼樣、在哪裡」。畫面比較像你回頭指著不只一個東西，講出它們那時候的情況：they were happy（他們那時很快樂）、the keys were on the table（鑰匙那時在桌上）。

原始詞典資料6 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。

wereverb詞源 1/wə(ɹ)/

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    simple subjunctive of be

    • I wish that it were Sunday.
    • I wish that I were with you.

werenoun詞源 3

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    slanglifestyleThe collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.

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。