喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˌprepəˈzɪʃən/介系詞

    a word such as "in", "on", "at", or "to" that is put before a noun, a pronoun, or an -ing word to show place, time, direction, and so on. In "the trees in the park", "in" is a preposition.

    示範例句 · Example

    In the phrase "the trees in the park", the word "in" is a preposition.

    逐字在「the trees in the park」這個片語裡，in 這個字是一個介系詞。

    「preposition」就是中文文法課說的「介系詞」：in、on、at、to、for 這類小字，放在名詞、代名詞或 V-ing 前面，指出位置、時間或方向，例如 in the park（在公園裡）、on Monday（在星期一）、to school（去學校）。這個字可以想成 pre-（前面）＋ position（位置）——「站在前面的那個小字」，剛好說明英文的介系詞一定放在名詞前面。中文習慣把方位字擺後面（公園「裡」），英文則擺前面（"in" the park），這是兩種語言最容易顛倒的地方。

    常見搭配

    • a preposition of place

      表示位置的介系詞

      a preposition such as in, on, or under that shows where something is

      "In front of" is a preposition of place.

    • a preposition of time

      表示時間的介系詞

      a preposition such as at, on, or in that shows when something happens

      We learned three prepositions of time today: at, on, and in.

    • use a preposition

      使用介系詞

      to put a preposition into a sentence

      You use a preposition before the name of a month, as in "in May".

    • end a sentence with a preposition

      把介系詞放在句尾

      to put a preposition at the end of a sentence

      "Who are you talking to?" ends a sentence with a preposition, and that is normal in everyday English.

    用法接近

    adverbconjunctionpronounarticleparticlepart of speech

core核心畫面

You can think of it as the small word that sets one thing in relation to another — where it sits, when it happens, which way it goes. In "the trees in the park", the word in tells you how the trees stand to the park.

可以想成那個負責「擺位置」的小字：它站在名詞、代名詞或 -ing 形式的前面，說明一個東西相對於另一個東西在哪裡、在什麼時候、往哪個方向。像 the trees in the park，in 就是在講樹和公園之間的關係。in、on、at、to 都屬於這一類，字本身很短，卻是整句話的關節。

同家族的字

複數 prepositions

用法接近

adverbconjunctionpronounarticleparticlepart of speech

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

prepositionnoun詞源 1/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/

  • 1

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAny of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

    • 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
    • And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT: (121) (a) [To whom] can I send this letter —? (121) (b) [About what] are they quarrelling —? (121) (c) [In which book] did you read about it —?
  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn adposition.

  • 3

    obsoleteA proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

    • […] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • pre-position

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