查询词典 noun-group

A: Give an example of a collective noun.

举个集合名词的例子。

When you use a collective noun, you can use either a singular verb or a plural verb after it.

当你使用一个集合名词时，你可以在它之后使用单数名词或者是复数名词

One thing to note is that not all of the things that have a corresponding collective noun, or nouns of assemblage.

所谓、是个相对概念，不是绝对的，有很多表达只是得体与不得体、地道与不地道的问题。

"People" is a collective noun. It is singular in form, but takes a plural predicate verb.

"People"是一个集合名词，尽管形式上是单数，它必须与复数的谓语动词连用。

While the collective noun used to describe the funds may be relatively new, the funds themselves often are not.

尽管描述这类基金的集合名词或许还比较新鲜，但这些基金本身往往不是这样。

As a collective noun number may take either a singular or a plural verb.

作为一个集合名词，number 既可以跟动词单数形式也可以跟动词复数形式。

In American usage, a collective noun takes a singular verb when it refers to the collection considered as a whole,as in The family was united on this question.

在美国用法中，集合名词在指代的集合名词作为一个整体时，谓语动词要用单数形式，如在全家在这个问题上达成一致。

Besides this paper studies the concept"communism", which was forming in the fourties of the 19th century as a collective noun for different communist groups.

文章在此基础上探究了"共产主义"一词在十九世纪四十年代初期正在形成，是各种共产主义流派的集合名词。

A collective noun should not be treated as both singular and plural in the same construction;thus The family is determined to press its claim.

集合名词在同一个结构中不能既做单数又做复数；这样全家一致决定发表它的声明。

In the past, grammarians have sometimes insisted that people is a collective noun that should not be used as a substitute for persons when referring to a specific number of individuals, as in Six people were arrested.

过去，语法学家曾坚持说 people是集合名词，不能替代描述特定数量个体的 persons，如在六个人被捕了中。

Plunder melds and run with this jewel!

掠夺melds和运行与此宝石！

My dream is to be a crazy growing tree and extend at the edge between the city and the forest.

此刻，也许正是在通往天国的路上，我体验着这白色的晕旋。