英単語

thoseの意味・使い方・発音

those

英 [ðəʊz] 美 [ðoz]
  • adj.それら
  • pron. 那些(thatの複数形)

語源


those それら

これらの綴りの変化形から派生したもので、後に語彙的な違いが生じる。

英語の語源


those
those: [OE] Originally, those was the plural of this. It did not move across to that until the Middle English period, gradually replacing its previous plural thō. The game of musical chairs was completed by these, which was a new formation based on this.
=> this
those (pron.)
c. 1300, Midlands and southern variant of Old English tas, nominative and accusative plural of tes, teos "this" (see this). A collateral form of these, now used as the plural of that.

例文


1. The happiest are not those who own all the best things,but those who can appreciate the beauty of life.
最も幸せな人々は必ずしも何も最高ではありません。ただ、彼らは生活の素晴らしさを楽しむことができます。dd>
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2.I clearly empathize with the people who live in those neighborhoods.
私はそれらの場所に住んでいる人々に非常に同情しています。

3.Our tour prices bore little resemblance to those in the holiday brochures.
私たちの旅行見積もりは、それらのリゾートパンフレットの価格とはかけ離れています。

4.They hadn 't invented sequencers back in those days,had they?
その時彼らはまだシーケンサを発明していなかったのではないでしょうか。

5.The weather was unkind to those pipers who played in the morning.
悪天候は午前中のフルート奏者たちに容赦がない。

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