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单词 ours
释义

Definition of ours in English:

ours

possessive pronoun aʊəz
  • Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified.

    ours was the ugliest house on the block
    this chat of ours is strictly between us
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This land was promised to us and we will stop at nothing to defend that which is ours.
    • It costs a lot to carry the few people who fly in a country as underpopulated as ours.
    • In contrast to every previous encounter of ours, I sober up as we catch up into the early hours.
    • Our freedom to use what is ours is being taken away from us unless we dance to their tune and pay up.
    • Garden gnomes represent all that is both great and grotesque about this fair country of ours.
    • Small hospitals are very useful and certainly ours is essential to the local community.
    • The honour of being humiliated at an excruciatingly early stage is not yet ours.
    • They were searching for the origins of their creation, just as we search for ours.
    • Introduce fairness into this society of ours and remember that charity begins at home.
    • Effectively the delay enables banks to accrue interest which is effectively ours.
    • We need to hear from all of you who feel that this town of ours is worth the effort.
    • We continued the tradition and passed the house on to a writer friend of ours.
    • We put ours out for collection and, guess what, it was still there when I got home from work.
    • This hard earth of ours doesn't care if it's a sea or a desert, a river or a dune.
    • I look on with annoyance as I see parks pop up everywhere while ours are taken away.
    • Two years ago, we went to his parents' villa in Spain with some friends of ours for the first time.
    • Why don't these people concentrate on improving their own areas and leave ours alone?
    • What scares me is comparing their middle order with ours which is inexperienced.
    • It doesn't even seem to understand the terms of its own existence any more, never mind ours.
    • I think when he saw the film for the first time he was looking at his own life as well as ours.

Usage

There is no need for an apostrophe: the spelling should be ours not our's

Rhymes

Bowers, Flowers, Powers, Towers
 
 

Definition of ours in US English:

ours

possessive pronoun
  • Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified.

    ours was the ugliest house on the block
    this chat of ours is strictly between us
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We put ours out for collection and, guess what, it was still there when I got home from work.
    • They were searching for the origins of their creation, just as we search for ours.
    • I look on with annoyance as I see parks pop up everywhere while ours are taken away.
    • It doesn't even seem to understand the terms of its own existence any more, never mind ours.
    • Two years ago, we went to his parents' villa in Spain with some friends of ours for the first time.
    • I think when he saw the film for the first time he was looking at his own life as well as ours.
    • Effectively the delay enables banks to accrue interest which is effectively ours.
    • Our freedom to use what is ours is being taken away from us unless we dance to their tune and pay up.
    • What scares me is comparing their middle order with ours which is inexperienced.
    • We continued the tradition and passed the house on to a writer friend of ours.
    • Why don't these people concentrate on improving their own areas and leave ours alone?
    • Small hospitals are very useful and certainly ours is essential to the local community.
    • The honour of being humiliated at an excruciatingly early stage is not yet ours.
    • This hard earth of ours doesn't care if it's a sea or a desert, a river or a dune.
    • This land was promised to us and we will stop at nothing to defend that which is ours.
    • Introduce fairness into this society of ours and remember that charity begins at home.
    • We need to hear from all of you who feel that this town of ours is worth the effort.
    • It costs a lot to carry the few people who fly in a country as underpopulated as ours.
    • In contrast to every previous encounter of ours, I sober up as we catch up into the early hours.
    • Garden gnomes represent all that is both great and grotesque about this fair country of ours.
 
 
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