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单词 he
释义 he
I. \(|)hē, _ē, _(h)i\ pronoun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hē; akin to Old English hēo, hīo she, hit it, hīe they, Old Saxon hē, hie he, Old High German hē, Old Norse hann he, Gothic himma (dative) this, Latin cis, citra on this side, Greek keinos, ekeinos that (adjective), that person, Armenian sa this, Hittite ki; basic meaning: this
1. : that male one
 < I'll have no father, if you be not he — Shakespeare >
 < I spoke to the boy and he spoke to me >
: that one regarded as masculine (as by personification)
 < last came Anarchy: he rode on a white horse — P.B.Shelley >
— used as nominative masculine pronoun of the third person singular usually in reference to a previously specified subject or to someone indicated by some means (as pointing)
 < he heard me say it and so did he >
 < he with the beard is the one I mean >
sometimes in poetry and in substandard speech used pleonastically together with a noun as subject of a verb
 < the Senator he said he'd have to have you — John Dos Passos >
 < Sir Oluf he rideth over the plain — H.W.Longfellow >
— see him I, his I; compare his, it, she, they III
2. : that one whose sex is unknown or immaterial
 < find out who is ringing the doorbell and what he wants >
 < he that hath ears to hear, let him hear — Mt 11:15 (Authorized Version) >
— used as a nominative case form in general statements (as in statutes) to include females, fictitious persons (as corporations), and several persons collectively
 < if a customer is dissatisfied he may return the goods >
 < one manufacturer is advertising … that he will sell cars freight-free — Motor Trend >
3. archaic : the one : the other — used as a nominative masculine demonstrative pronoun in the expressions he … he and he and he
4. : you — used as a nominative case form in speaking to or as if to a baby
 < did he bump his little head >
and in some English dialects in addressing a boy or in addressing a person of higher or lower social status than the speaker
5.
 a. substandard : him — used in a compound object
  < between his wife and he >
 b. dialect England : him, it — used emphatically as object of a verb or preposition
  < don't give it to he >
II. \|hē\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from he, pron.
1. : a male person or animal
 < the hes would quarrel and fight with the females — Jonathan Swift >
— often used in combination
 < a routine he-she plot >
 < he-goat >
2.
 a. : one that is strongly masculine or virile — used chiefly in combination
  < a real he-man >
  < that's what I call he-literature — Sinclair Lewis >
 b. dialect : a large or powerful one of its kind — used chiefly in combination
  < a regular old he-blizzard — Wallace Stegner >
3. Britain : tag III 1; also : the player who is it
III. noun
also heh \ˈhā\
(-s)
Etymology: Hebrew hē', perhaps literally, window
1. : the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet — symbol ה; see alphabet table
2. : the letter of the Phoenician alphabet or of any of various other Semitic alphabets corresponding to Hebrew he
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