想想吧—我们在许多不同的情境中交替使用“the”这个单词,用它来修饰许多不同的概念,观念或事物。从具体物品到抽象的隐喻概念,我们可以用这个单词修饰其中一切事物。当该词使用不当时,以英语为母语的人不需要思考就可以本能地指出。
As noted in the linked article above, the dictionary itself lists almost two dozen different ways the word can be used in a sentence correctly, which makes an exact definition of the word that much more difficult to pin down. Don’t believe us? Try defining it yourself in the comments and let us know how it goes.
正如以上链接的文章(指Why Is the Word the So Difficult to Define?)所指出的,字典上列出的该单词在句中的正确用法有将近20种,这使得该单词的定义更为准确,却也使人们更难明晰其具体的含义。不相信我们?那么你自己试着定义一下吧,然后写在评论中,让我们看看你是怎么定义的。
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