somebody
(also someone ) indef pron
1 some person 某人; 有人: There's somebody at the door. 門口有個人.
Somebody from your office phoned. 你的辦公室有人來過電話.
If you saw somebody drowning what would you do? 假若看見有人快淹死了, 你怎麼辦呢?
2 an important person 重要人物
He thinks he's really somebody. 他自以為很了不起. somebody, NOTE ON USAGE 用法
Indefinite pronouns such as somebody, someone, everyone, no one, etc are singular and, grammatically, should be followed by othersingular pronouns (he, she, his, her, etc). *somebody、someone、 everyone、 no one等不定代詞均為單數, 根據語法規則, 後面應該用其他單數代詞(he、 she、 his、 her等). Traditionally, if the sex of the person is unknown, the masculine pronouns he, him, his have been used to refer to both females and males 按照傳統用法, 若性別不詳則男女兩性均用陽性代詞he、 him、 his表示
Everybody has his own view of what happened. 對於所發生的事情, 各人有各人的看法.
Somebody has lost his car keys. 有人把汽車鑰匙丟了.
Did anybody hurt himself? 有人受傷了嗎? Many people today consider this shows sexual bias and try to avoid it. 如今很多人認為這種用法有性別偏見之嫌, 因而盡量加以避免. The preferred way, especially in speech, is to use they, them or their with a singular neutral meaning 較為可取的方法是使用they、 them或their, 并賦以單數的中性含義, 尤用於口語
Everyone said they would help. 大家都表示要幫忙.
Either John or Jane has to give up their job. 不是約翰就是簡, 總有一個得放棄工作. Another way, especially in writing, is to use(s)he, he or she, him or her, his or her, though some people find this clumsy 另一種方法尤見於書面形式, 是使用(s)he、 he or she、 him or her、 his or her, 但有些人認為過於累贅
Somebody has lost his or her car keys. 有人把汽車鑰匙丟了. A third possibility is to rephrase the sentence to make the subject plural, thus avoiding the problem 第三種用法是修改句子, 使主語變為復數以避開這個問題
Did any of you hurt yourselves? 有人受傷了嗎? See also note on usage at he. 參見 he 詞條的用法說明.
?? 擴展釋義
*['s?mb?di]n. 了不起的人, 大人物pron. 有人, 某人相關詞組: somebody or other
?? 同為「小學」詞匯
chancen. 機會,機遇;概率,可能性;偶然,運氣;
v. 偶然發生;冒險;碰巧;偶然被發現;
adj. 意外的;偶然的;碰巧的;