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Form Genitive Plural Demonstrative Adjective Pronoun English C

正面 37.their
英 [ðeə]美 [ðɛr]

背面
释义:
pron. 他们的,她们的;它们的n. (Their)人名;(英)蒂尔;(芬、瑞典)泰尔
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。

1. 也就是说它前后呈现出一种一致的比较、对照关系。2. 即这种对照结果是:相应的,一致的,符合的,同时的,顺着的,顺应的,匹配的上的对照或比较。3. if / though (即使、纵然) => as if / as though. => 也就是说好像跟即使、纵然这种假设的情况一致、一样似的。
their 他们的来自 they,他们,-r,所有格后缀,字母 y 音变为 i.
theirtheir: [12] Like they and them, their was borrowed from Old Norse. Its source was theirra, the genitive plural form of the demonstrative adjective sá. The pronoun form theirs [13] is an English creation.=> them, theytheir (pron.)plural possessive pronoun, c. 1200, from Old Norse þierra "of them," genitive of plural personal and demonstrative pronoun þeir "they" (see they). Replaced Old English hiera. As an adjective from late 14c. Use with singular objects, scorned by grammarians, is attested from c. 1300, and OED quotes this in Fielding, Goldsmith, Sydney Smith, and Thackeray. Theirs (c. 1300) is a double possessive. Alternative form theirn (1836) is attested in Midlands and southern dialect in U.K. and the Ozarks region of the U.S."

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