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 是第三人称单数代词,用作动词的主语、宾语或介词的宾语。
1 PRON-SING 它(指物体、动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(指物体、动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.
他看见那辆灰色的路虎越野车停在不远处的边道上,离他一百码开外。
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It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want.
这真是一座很棒的城市,如果你愿意的话我领你看看。
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My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it.
我妻子因为患关节炎腿瘸了。她不好意思去向医生询问相关病情。
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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.
很多人都劝我要个孩子好,但我觉得为人父母我真的不适合。
2 PRON-SING (指小孩或婴儿)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.
(指小孩或婴儿)它 -
She could, if she wanted, compel him, through a court of law, to support the child after it was born.
如果她愿意,她可以通过法庭强制他在孩子出生以后抚养孩子。
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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,孩子就停止了哭闹。
3 PRON-SING (笼统指代刚描述过的情景) You use
it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described.
(笼统指代刚描述过的情景) -
He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way.
他放弃了体育运动,不是因为被迫而是出于自愿。
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Antonia will not be jealous, or if she is, she will not show it.
安东尼娅不会嫉妒,即便嫉妒,她也不会表现出来。
4 PRON-SING (用于某些名词、形容词、动词前说明对某情况的感受、观点) You use
it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation.
(用于某些名词、形容词、动词前说明对某情况的感受、观点) -
It was nice to see Steve again.
再次见到史蒂夫真是太好了。
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It's a pity you never got married, Sarah.
萨拉,你没结过婚真是遗憾啊。
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It's funny how you remember things.
你回忆往事的方式真好笑。
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It's good of him to spare the time to visit at all.
他能抽出时间过来看看真是不错。
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Is it possible he'll phone you?.
他有可能给你打电话吗?
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He found it hard to work with a microphone pointing at him.
他发觉对着麦克风他很难专心工作。
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I know it's a good idea to use dental floss.
我知道用洁牙线是一个好主意。
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It's up to us to change things we don't like.
能否改变那些我们不喜欢的事情取决于我们自己。
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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 (用于被动句中引出一个情况或事件) You use
it in passive clauses which report a situation or event.
(用于被动句中引出一个情况或事件) -
It has been said that stress causes cancer.
据说压力会引发癌症。
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Yesterday it was reported that a number of people had been arrested in the capital.
昨天据报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.
据观察一年之内发病率显著上升。
6 PRON-SING (与动词连用,作形式主语或宾语) You use
it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that it refers to.
(与动词连用,作形式主语或宾语) -
Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists.
当然,结果是那群人中 3/4 是精神病学家。
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I like it here.
我喜欢这里。
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We live in a world in which only the strongest can make it to the top.
我们生活在这样一个世界里—只有最强的人才能爬得最高。
7 PRON-SING (用作 be动词的主语,指钟点、星期、日期) You use
it as the subject of 'be', to say what the time, day, or date is.
(用作 be动词的主语,指钟点、星期、日期) -
It's three o'clock in the morning.
现在是凌晨 3 点整。
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It was a Monday, so she was at home.
那天是星期一,因此她在家里。
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It's December 1989, in Las Vegas.
那是 1989 年 12 月,在拉斯维加斯。
8 PRON-SING (用作系动词的主语,描述天气、光线或温度) You use
it as the subject of a link verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature.
(用作系动词的主语,描述天气、光线或温度) -
It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Milland.
那天风雨交加,我开车翻过小山去米兰德。
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It's getting dark. Let's go inside.
天色暗下来了,我们进去吧。
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It was warm in the kitchen.
厨房里真暖和。
9 PRON-SING (尤用于刚接通电话时询问、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.
(尤用于刚接通电话时询问、告知身份) -
'Who is it?' he called. — 'It's your neighbor.'.
“是谁啊?”他问道。—“是你的邻居。”
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Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine.
你好,弗蕾迪!是我,玛克辛。
10 PRON (与动词 be 连用,强调突出某物) When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after
it and a form of the verb 'be'.
(与动词 be 连用,强调突出某物) [emphasis] -
It's really the poor countries that don't have an economic base that have the worst environmental records.
确实是那些没有经济基础的穷国的环境记录最差。
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It was the country's rulers who devised this system.
是该国的执政者创造了这一体制。
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It was I who found him there.
是我发现了他在那里。
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It's my father they're accusing.
他们指控的是我父亲。
11 PHRASE 并不是因为/不仅仅因为 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.
并不是因为/不仅仅因为 12 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 自以为很了不起 If you say that someone
thinks they're
it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
自以为很了不起 [informal] 13 if it wasn't for→see: be View usage for:All yearsLast 10 yearsLast 50 yearsLast 100 yearsLast 300 years