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1、they的用法总结大全 they的用法你知道么?今天给大家带来they的用法，希望能够帮助到大家，下面就和大家分享，来欣赏一下吧。they的用法总结大全they的意思pron. 他/她/它们,人们，大家,政府，当局,她们they用法they可以用作名词they是第三人称的复数形式,无性别之分,代表已提到过的一些人或事,在句中多用作主语,通常放在它所指代的名词之后,偶尔也可放在它所指代的词之前。有时为了避免显露性别, they也可以代替he, she或it。they后可接whom等引导的定语从句。they用作名词的用法例句Women used to think they were on the

2、shelf at 30.过去女人一到30岁就认为是过了结婚年龄。They are going to move to a new house next week.下星期他们将迁入新居。I have a dog and a cat, but they fight all the time.我养了一只猫和一只狗，但它们老是打架。they用法例句1、They have maintained their optimism in the face of desolating subjugation.面对遭征服的悲惨命运，他们保持了乐观的态度。2、He said they should turn their

3、 fire on the Conservative Party instead.他说他们应该掉转枪口，向保守党开火。3、They found a labyrinth of tunnels under the ground.他们发现了一处迷宫似的地道。“they”从一个复数名词变为单数名词!那语法应该怎么用?早在14世纪的中古英语中，杰弗里乔叟、威廉莎士比亚、简奥斯汀等知名作家就将they作为单数形式进行使用。And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, They wol come up . . .Chaucer, The Pardoners Prologu

4、e (c. 1395)“不管是谁唱的赞美诗，Ta都会来的.”-乔叟Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should oerhear the speech. Shakespeare, Hamlet“母亲对儿子总会有点偏袒，所以最好有个第三者悄悄听听看。”-莎士比亚，哈姆雷特同时，除了使用they，代词he也被认为可以作中性词使用。Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one

5、 of us would depend on his winning or losing a game of chess. Thomas Huxley, A Liberal Education (1868)“假使真的存在这么一种情况，即我们每个人的生命和财产有一天要由自己在象棋比赛中的输赢决定，那么，你们不认为我们的首要任务是对象棋进行一定的学习吗?”-托马斯亨利赫胥黎，通识教育If any one did not know it, it was his own fault. George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days (1879)“如果有人不知道，那就是

6、他自己的错。”-乔治华盛顿凯布尔，克里奥尔人和过去的年代2. 19世纪的性别通用he的趋势18世纪中叶后，倡导在非正式英语中使用he而非they的用法。1895年的语法(Baskervill, W.M.与Sewell, J.W.的An English Grammar for the Use of High School, Academy and College Class)标记了they可以作为单数名词的用法，但也特别推荐使用代词he。指代X性别：the ideal that every boy and girl should be so equipped that he shall not

7、be handicapped in his struggle for social progress . . . C.C. Fries, American English Grammar, (1940)“理想是每个男孩和女孩都应该有的，这使他在社会进步的斗争中不受阻碍.”-查尔斯卡本特弗里斯指代两元性别的人：She and Louis had a gamewho could find the ugliest photograph of himself. Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971)“她和路易士玩游游戏，各自找出自己最难看的照片。”-约瑟

8、P拉什3. 20世纪开始趋于适用性别中性语言在20世纪的下半个世纪，女权主义者关注“性别歧视主义”的男性导向式语言。其中“he”作为性别通用代词就引发了许多争议。于是就出现了一些人在性别未知的情况下，偏向用they来表示个体，作为单数代词来使用。例如Facebook早在20XX年2月就有56个性别可供选择。除了最传统的“男”“女”二元选项外，还包括Gender Nonconforming：非常规性别，指拒绝接受传统性别二元区分的人，选择这一选项的人，强调的是自己的拒绝特征：我不属于传统二元，但我也不会去精确定位自己的位置。Gender Questioning：性别存疑，指对自己的性别归属不完全

9、确定、还没有找到最适合自己的性别认同标签的人。Gender Variant：变体性别，和非常规性别类似。Genderqueer：酷儿性别 和非常规性别类似。Non-binary：非二元，和非常规性别类似。Agender：无性别，指没有发育性别、或者没有感觉到自己有任何强烈性别归属的人。Gender Fluid：流性人，指在不同时间经历性别认知改变的人。英国歌手山姆史密斯(Sam Smith)近来在推特上表示，希望外界要以英文代词称呼自己时，请使用“They/Them”，并非传统的“He/Him”，因为他并非属于男或女的二元性别。They的单数用法Facebook made quite a sp

10、lash lately. Not with a new service or the announcement of some smashing financial results. Instead, the company will allow users to choose something besides “Male” or “Female” for the gender on their profile. Its a change that transgender people and others who do not feel 100% male or female have g

11、reeted with joy and relief.Facebooks radical moveradical in the best sensewas accompanied by another, but altogether less radical, change. If someone doesnt want to be known as either male or female, that same person will not want to see, on others Facebook pages, the message “Wish him a happy birth

12、day!” or “Wish her a happy birthday!” How should they be referred to?The answer is in that last sentence. The antecedent to the pronoun is someone, and the pronoun is, of course, they. Now, someone is grammatically singular (it takes a singular verb), and they is in most cases semantically plural (c

13、onjuring a group, not an individual). So some grammatical traditionalists think “singular they” is always wrong. But in fact, singular “they” is as traditional as it gets.How so? English has a gap in its pronoun set. We often need to refer to an unknown person (“someone”, “anyone”, “a doctor” and th

14、e like). If we later use a pronoun for that same person, of unknown or unimportant sex, some traditionalists say that “he” is the best solutionsomeone is singular, so the pronoun must be too. But while he matches in number, it is a mismatch in gender: there is a strong chance the unknown referent is

15、 female. This “traditional” solution is flawed.But traditionalists need not panic. Singular they has appeared in the finest English writing for centuries.“And whoso fyndeth hym out of switch blame, they wol come up” (Chaucer, The Pardoners Prologue)“And everyone to rest themselves betake” (Shakespea

16、re, The Rape of Lucrece)“If ye from your hearts forgive not every one their trespasses” (King James Bible, Matthew 18:35)“I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly” (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park).It is only in more recent centuries that some grammarians began to insist that the pronoun

17、be singular, and that he should be thought of as gender-neutral. But recent psychological research has shown that the so-called generic he does call up the image of a man or boy. In the modern world, it makes little sense to expose young women and girls to repeated instances of A lawyer should know

18、his clients needs or A good doctor always listens to his patients. And that is even before we get to intersex, transsexual and other cases.Most of the alternatives to singular they are worse. He or she is ugly, especially on repetition. Our Style Guide says that generic he is fine, perhaps to altern

19、ate with the occasional generic she. But this can seem cutesy, or at the very least distracting. And all suggestions for invented new gender-neutral pronouns have failed: pronouns (unlike nouns and verbs) are a “closed class” of words, almost never admitting new members. A childrens author has tried

20、 again recently in Sweden; it is too soon to tell if it will succeed, but the smart money would be against.Faced with this conundrum, what to do? To recap, the options are- be inaccurate and potentially sexist (generic he)- be awkward and ugly (he or she)- switch he and she at random- invent somethi

21、ng that will never work (new pronouns)- do what Caxton, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Thackeray, Spenser and countless others have done, and what you probably do in informal speech yourself (singular they)Facebook made a surprisingly easy choice.There will always be those who think singular they is

22、wrong. (Our style guide calls it scrambled syntax.) Where avoiding distracting or annoying such people is paramount in your writing, the best solution is to reword, putting things in the plural to go round the choice. (Make The careful writer keeps his readers in mind into Careful writers keep their

23、 readers in mind.) But sometimes this solution will not work, or produces something less elegant.Singular they is common in almost everyones relaxed speech. It may not make stylistic sense for a doctoral thesis. But it does for many people who reject traditional gender. Most transgender people prefe

24、r their new gender-based pronoun, so he and she are just fine. But for a minority, they might be best. Facebook has given them that option, without really doing damage to English tradition.So, think about your audience, gauge the effect youre going for, consider how formal the situation, and make the choice that works best. In a world full of imperfect people and imperfect solutions, just remember that, as Jonathan Swift wrote, “Every fool can do as theyre bid.”they的用法总结大全