| 词汇 | thou |
| 释义 | thou pronoun old useuk /ðaʊ/ us /ðaʊ/ you, used when speaking to one person汝，尔，你 Linguistics: personal pronouns 'em he her I, i it number one personally S, s s/he thee them themself they us y'all you you-all yours Yours trulyphrase yous thou noun[ C ] uk /θaʊ/ us /θaʊ/pluralthou informal forthousand, especially when referring to an amount of money: （尤指钱数）一千（thousand 的非正式说法） "How much do you think it cost him?" "About thirty thou."“你估计这个东西花了他多少钱？”“大约3万。” Synonym grand(MONEY)informal Informal words for money boodle bread buck cheddar defence fund G, g gee grand K, k lolly lucre shekel spondulicks tanner tenner tenpenny the readies ton wonga your daily breadidiom thou | American Dictionarythou pronoun us/ðɑʊ/ old use you: Thou shalt (= You shall) not kill. Examples of thouthou The old agreement form for use with the subject thou survives not only in some dialects, but also in our passive competence. Smiling thou bear'st him to thy chill green bed. The speaker asks the "slight" daisy, "thou little veil for so great a mystery," when she, the poet, might "penetrate all things and thee". The rejection of thou also safeguarded against offending people. Why wilt thou be wood yet once again? He also manages to do so without striking 'holier than thou' postures and is prepared to admit to the limits of knowledge and understanding. Vanished with the back numbers, if ever thou didst exist? Being a chartered engineer does not necessarily mean being a professional engineer even thou most societies in the world relates "chartered" with professional. The explanation tacitly accepted is the inability to keep the collective commandments (' ' thou shalt not ' '). What dost thou with thy best apparel on ? The pattern of using thee's and thou's continues unabated, and in this context is not so much evocative of antiquity, as simply irritating. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His vocatives indicate this: the detachment of "sir" (2, 9), the conventional neutrality of "thou" (5), the intimacy of "my friend" (5). The use of thou between people who would normally use you to each other would have signalled a range of effects, such as anger and contempt. Blessed also are we in having thee as our succour: for day and night thou didst intercede for us, and the sceptres of kings are strengthened by thy supplications. Moreover, within the language of exhortation, he is especially interested in what follows once ' ' thou shalt not ' ' is understood as the dialectical accompaniment to ' ' thou shalt. See all examples of thou These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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