were是什么意思？

were

英[wə(r)] 美[wə]

• be的过去时复数和第二人称单数形式，有时代替 was,用于条件从句、动词 wish 之后等；

例句

• There was a ten-mile chase before the thieves were caught up by the police car. 过了10英里路, 警察的车子才赶上盗窃犯。
• The leaves were caught up by a sudden gust of wind. 突然一阵风把树叶吹起。
• They were again connected to the wrong place. 他们的电话又给接错了。
• Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living. 工资的增加全给生活费用的上涨抵消掉了。
• They were shooting at a target. 他们在向一个目标射击。
• “I'm sure there were over 10, 000 people at the demonstration.”“Oh, go on with you—it looked like a few hundred, that's all.” “我确定有一万多人参加游行。”“噢, 别开玩笑了!看起来好像就只有几百人!”
• We were pushed for time and had to quit some place to visit. 由于时间紧迫, 我们只好放弃一些地方不去参观了。
• The holiday wasn’t really our scene.Most of the people were much older than us and there wasn’t any nightlife. 这次假期过得不太合我们的意。大多数人都比我们年龄大,而且也没有任何夜生活。
• In 1929 the Party representatives in the Red Army were renamed political commissars. 红军中的党代表一九二九年起改称政治委员。
• They were searching for fossils. 他们在找化石。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• （be的过去时复数和第二人称单数形式）
  Were is the plural and the second person singular of the past tense of be.
• （有时代替 was，用于条件从句、动词 wish 之后等）
  Were is sometimes used instead of 'was' in certain structures, for example in conditional clauses or after the verb 'wish'.
  例句
  He told a diplomat that he might withdraw if he were allowed to keep part of a disputed oil field... 他告诉一名外交官，如果允许他保留一个有争议油田的一部分，他可能就会撤兵。 He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. 他信奉无神论就像信仰一种新的宗教。