| 词组 | your, you're |
| 释义 | your, you're 1. The possessive pronoun is your: "Your spelling is atrocious." The contraction of you are is you're: "You're an atrocious speller." 2. In addition to functioning as a possessive pronoun, your is often used without any particular meaning, more or less as an equivalent to the. Such usage is quite old: it was first recorded in the 16th century and can be found in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. In modern idiom, it frequently occurs with such adjectives as average, standard, ordinary, usual, and basic: • ... sets him apart from your average professor of art history —James Breckenridge, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 24 Feb. 1980 • ... a father compared to whom your average eunuch is a model of virility —John Simon, New York, 9 Feb. 1976 • ... is not your ordinary college —Malcolm Scully, The Chronicle, 28 Oct. 1975 • ... your usual Bake-Off contestant —Nora Ephron, Esquire, July 1973 • ... your basic historical pageant —Alan Rich, New York, 15 Mar. 1976 • Your basic returning boomerang —Stephen S. Hall, Smithsonian, June 1984 Bishop Lowth objected to such usage in the 18th century, and Roy Copperud has objected to it in the 20th. Other usage commentors seem not to have had much to say about it. As the examples above indicate, it is right at home in casual prose but is not found in notably elevated written discourse. |
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