It is a third person singular pronoun. It is used as the subject or object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition. it 是第三人稱單數代詞,用作動詞的主語、賓語或介詞的賓語。
1 PRON-SING 它(指物體、動物或上文已提及的其他事物) You use
it to refer to an object, animal, or other thing that has already been mentioned.
它(指物體、動物或上文已提及的其他事物) -
He saw the grey Land-Rover down the bypass. It was more than a hundred yards from him.
他看見那輛灰色的路虎越野車停在不遠處的邊道上,離他一百碼開外。
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It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want.
這真是一座很棒的城市,如果你願意的話我領你看看。
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My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it.
我妻子因爲患關節炎腿瘸了。她不好意思去向醫生詢問相關病情。
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I took a lot of convincing that parenthood was a good idea and I didn't think I'd be much use at it.
很多人都勸我要個孩子好,但我覺得爲人父母我真的不適合。
2 PRON-SING (指小孩或嬰兒)它 You use
it to refer to a child or baby whose sex you do not know or whose sex is not relevant to what you are saying.
(指小孩或嬰兒)它 -
She could, if she wanted, compel him, through a court of law, to support the child after it was born.
如果她願意,她可以通過法庭強制他在孩子出生以後撫養孩子。
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He threw the baby high in the air and it stopped crying.
他把孩子向空中高高抛起,孩子就停止了哭鬧。
3 PRON-SING (籠統指代剛描述過的情景) You use
it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described.
(籠統指代剛描述過的情景) -
He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way.
他放棄了體育運動,不是因爲被迫而是出於自願。
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Antonia will not be jealous, or if she is, she will not show it.
安東尼娅不會嫉妒,即便嫉妒,她也不會表現出來。
4 PRON-SING (用於某些名詞、形容詞、動詞前說明對某情況的感受、觀點) You use
it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation.
(用於某些名詞、形容詞、動詞前說明對某情況的感受、觀點) -
It was nice to see Steve again.
再次見到史蒂夫真是太好了。
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It's a pity you never got married, Sarah.
薩拉,你沒結過婚真是遺憾啊。
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It's funny how you remember things.
你回憶往事的方式真好笑。
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It's good of him to spare the time to visit at all.
他能抽出時間過來看看真是不錯。
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Is it possible he'll phone you?.
他有可能給你打電話嗎?
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He found it hard to work with a microphone pointing at him.
他發覺對着麥克風他很難專心工作。
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I know it's a good idea to use dental floss.
我知道用潔牙線是一個好主意。
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It's up to us to change things we don't like.
能否改變那些我們不喜歡的事情取決於我們自己。
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It seems that you are letting things get you down.
看上去你快要累趴下了。
5 PRON-SING (用於被動句中引出一個情況或事件) You use
it in passive clauses which report a situation or event.
(用於被動句中引出一個情況或事件) -
It has been said that stress causes cancer.
據說壓力會引發癌症。
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Yesterday it was reported that a number of people had been arrested in the capital.
昨天據報道有很多人在首都被捕。
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It was noted that within a year the incidence of illness had increased quite significantly.
據觀察一年之内發病率顯著上升。
6 PRON-SING (與動詞連用,作形式主語或賓語) You use
it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that it refers to.
(與動詞連用,作形式主語或賓語) -
Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists.
當然,結果是那群人中 3/4 是精神病學家。
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I like it here.
我喜歡這裏。
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We live in a world in which only the strongest can make it to the top.
我們生活在這樣一個世界裏—只有最強的人才能爬得最高。
7 PRON-SING (用作 be動詞的主語,指鐘點、星期、日期) You use
it as the subject of 'be', to say what the time, day, or date is.
(用作 be動詞的主語,指鐘點、星期、日期) -
It's three o'clock in the morning.
現在是淩晨 3 點整。
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It was a Monday, so she was at home.
那天是星期一,因此她在家裏。
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It's December 1989, in Las Vegas.
那是 1989 年 12 月,在拉斯維加斯。
8 PRON-SING (用作系動詞的主語,描述天氣、光線或溫度) You use
it as the subject of a link verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature.
(用作系動詞的主語,描述天氣、光線或溫度) -
It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Milland.
那天風雨交加,我開車翻過小山去米蘭德。
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It's getting dark. Let's go inside.
天色暗下來了,我們進去吧。
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It was warm in the kitchen.
廚房裏真暖和。
9 PRON-SING (尤用於剛接通電話時詢問、告知身份) You use
it when you are telling someone who you are, or asking them who they are, especially at the beginning of a phone call. You also use
it in statements and questions about the identity of other people.
(尤用於剛接通電話時詢問、告知身份) -
'Who is it?' he called. — 'It's your neighbor.'.
“是誰啊?”他問道。—“是你的鄰居。”
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Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine.
你好,弗蕾迪!是我,瑪克辛。
10 PRON (與動詞 be 連用,強調突出某物) When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after
it and a form of the verb 'be'.
(與動詞 be 連用,強調突出某物) [emphasis] -
It's really the poor countries that don't have an economic base that have the worst environmental records.
確實是那些沒有經濟基礎的窮國的環境記錄最差。
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It was the country's rulers who devised this system.
是該國的執政者創造了這一體制。
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It was I who found him there.
是我發現了他在那裏。
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It's my father they're accusing.
他們指控的是我父親。
11 PHRASE 並不是因爲/不僅僅因爲 You use
it in expressions such as
it's not that or
it's not simply that when you are giving a reason for something and are suggesting that there are several other reasons.
並不是因爲/不僅僅因爲 12 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 自以爲很了不起 If you say that someone
thinks they're
it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
自以爲很了不起 [informal] 13 if it wasn't for→see: be View usage for:All yearsLast 10 yearsLast 50 yearsLast 100 yearsLast 300 years