| 词组 | own |
| 释义 | own If you want to emphasize that something belongs or relates to a particular person or thing, you use own after a possessive. I took no notice till I heard my own name mentioned. These people have total confidence in their own ability. How far it also influenced the King's own beliefs, we cannot now be certain. Now the nuclear industry's own experts support these claims. ◊ 'own' with a number If you are also using a number, you put the number after own. You say, for example, 'She had given the same advice to her own three children'. You do not say 'She had given the same advice to her three own children'. She was younger than my own two daughters. ◊ 'of your own' You do not use own after 'an'. You do not say, for example, 'I've got an own place'. You say 'I've got my own place' or 'I've got a place of my own'. By this time Laura had got her own radio. She says we cannot have our own key to the apartment. The university has a varied social and cultural life of its own. I'm thinking of starting a production unit of my own. ...people who have no bank accounts of their own. ◊ emphasizing 'own' You can use 'very' in front of own for emphasis. ...the aptly-named Inside Out, the prison's very own pop group. Accountants have a language of their very own. ◊ 'own' without a noun You can use own without a noun after it, when it is clear what you are talking about. However, there must always be a possessive in front of it. ...people whose principles and values they had thought were the same as their own. I refused to clean the cell unless I was given clothes other than my own to wear. ◊ 'on your own' If you are on your own, you are alone. She lived on her own. If you do something on your own, you do it without any help from anyone else. We can't solve this problem on our own. |
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