they 的用法及固定搭配

they

1.不可用they,them,their等指anybody,everybody等词,参见anybody 3everybody 3nobody 2one 7 (2)

2.参见company 2party 1。用army,cabinet,committee,crowd,family,fleet,government,ministry,navy,public等词都该注意避免同样的错误。

3.they有时指“一般人”或“某人”。例如:They say she is a poet. 和They tell all sorts of stories about his eccentric ways. 有谚语说:They say so, is half a lie. (传闻多失实。)

下面两句里的they的用法不算正当:

  • I went into a shop where they sold toys. (最好把they sold toys改作toys were sold)
  • When I made inquiries at the counter, they told me that they knew
  • nothing about it. (最好把they told me that they knew nothing about it改作I was told that I could learn nothing about it there)

4.they who...(那…的人们)和they that...远不及those who...或people who...普通。谚语里往往用。例如:

  • They laugh best that (或who) laugh last. (事尚未定,且慢得意。)
  • They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat. (少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。)

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