喜樂美語
  1. 1vA1/wɑːz/ · /wɒz/是／在（過去式）

    The past tense form of 'be', used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun to say what something was like or where it was.

    The past tense form of 'be'be動詞的過去式 used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun跟I、he、she、it或單數名詞連用 to say用來說 what something was like某樣東西以前是什麼樣子 or where it was或它以前在哪裡

    示範例句 · Example

    The park was very crowded on Sunday morning.

    逐字這個公園是非常擁擠的在星期天早上。

    「was」是動詞 be 的過去式，用在「我、他、她、它」（I / he / she / it）後面，說明過去某人或某事的狀態、位置或身份。中文通常譯成「是」或「在」，但英文必須有 was，不能省略。注意 you / we / they 用的是 were，不是 was。

    常見搭配

    • was born

      出生於

      came into the world at a specific time or place

      She was born in Taipei in 2010.

    • there was

      （過去）有

      used to say something existed in the past

      There was a big tree in front of the school.

    • was going to

      （過去）打算

      planned to do something in the past

      I was going to call you, but I forgot.

core核心畫面

You can think of 'was' as 'is' that has slid into the past. It is the form of 'be' you reach for when you talk about one thing — I, he, she, it, or a single person or object — and that thing's state or place belongs to a time that is already over: where it was, or what it was like.

可以想成「was」就是「is」滑進了過去。當你講的是「一個」對象——I、he、she、it 或單數的人事物——而它的狀態或所在已經是過去的事（它當時在哪裡、當時是什麼樣子），就用 was。它是 be 動詞的過去式，專門配單數主詞。

同家族的字

過去式 was / were

原始詞典資料8 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。

Wasname

  • 1

    A surname.

wasverb/wəz/

  • 1

    Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.

    • There was three of them there.
    • And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。