them
them
pronoun
[third person plural]
pronoun
[third person plural]
- used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified
［用作动词或介词的宾语］他们；她们；它们。 比较 they
I bathed the kids and read them stories.
我给孩子们洗了澡，然后给他们读故事。
rows of doors, most of them locked.
一排排的门，大部分紧锁着。
■used after the verb ‘to be’ and after ‘than’ or ‘as'
［用作表语，或置于than, as之后］他们；她们；它们
you reckon that's them?.
你认为那是他们吗？。
we're better than them.
我们比他们好。
■[singular]referring to a person of unspecified sex
［指性别不确定的人］他的；她的
how well do you have to know someone before you call them a friend?.
你要了解一个人到什么程度才会称他为朋友？。 - (archaic)themselves
(古)他们（或她们）自己
they bethought them of a new expedient.
他们想出了一个新的权宜之计。
- (informal or dialect)those
(非正式或方)那些
look at them eyes.
瞧那些眼睛。
- Middle English: from Old Norse theim 'to those, to them', dative plural of sá; related to their and them
- On the use of them in the singular to mean ‘him or her’, see usage at they
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