it /ɪt/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  PRON-SING You use it to refer to an object, animal, or other thing that has already been mentioned. 它 (指上文提及的某一物体、动物或其他事物)

  例：

  It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want.

  这确实是个很棒的城市。如果你愿意的话，我带你看一下。

  例：

  My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it.

  我妻子因患关节炎腿瘸了。她不好意思去向医生询问相关病情。

• 2. 

  PRON-SING You use it to refer to a child or baby whose sex you do not know or whose sex is not relevant to what you are saying. 它 (指小孩或婴儿)

  例：

  She could compel him to support the child after it was born.

  她可以迫使他在孩子出生后抚养孩子。

• 3. 

  PRON-SING You use it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described. 它 (指刚刚说过的情况)

  例：

  He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way.

  他放弃体育运动了，不是因为他非放弃不可，而是因为他想要那样。

• 4. 

  PRON-SING You use it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation. 用于某些名词、形容词或动词前表达对某种情况的看法或观点

  例：

  It was nice to see Steve again.

  很高兴又见到了史蒂夫。

  例：

  It's a pity you never got married, Sarah.

  萨拉，很遗憾你从来没有结过婚。

• 5. 

  PRON-SING You use it in passive clauses that report a situation or event. 用于被动句表示对某一情况或事件的报道

  例：

  It has been said that stress causes cancer.

  据说压力会诱发癌症。

• 6. 

  PRON-SING You use it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that "it" refers to. 用作某些动词的形式主语或宾语

  例：

  Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists.

  当然，结果证明这些人中3/4是精神病医生。

• 7. 

  PRON-SING You use it as the subject of "be" to say what the time, day, or date is. 用作动词(be)的主语，指时间、日期等

  例：

  It's three o'clock in the morning.

  现在是凌晨3点。

  例：

  It was a Monday, so she was at home.

  那是个星期一，所以她在家。

• 8. 

  PRON-SING You use it as the subject of a linking verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature. 用作系动词的主语，指天气、光、温度等

  例：

  It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Del Norte.

  我开车越过小山去德尔诺特的那天下大雨又刮大风。

• 9. 

  PRON-SING You use it when you are telling someone who you are, or asking them who they are, especially at the beginning of a phone call. You also use it in statements and questions about the identity of other people. 通电话时用作开首语，报出身份或名字

  例：

  "Who is it?" he called.—"It's your neighbour."

  “谁呀？”他喊道。—“你的邻居。”

• 10. 

  PRON When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after it and a form of the verb "be." 与(be)动词配合起强调作用，引起对某事物的注意 [强调]

  例：

  It's really the poor countries that don't have an economic base that have the worst environmental records.

  确实是那些没有经济基础的贫穷国家的环保记录最糟糕。

• 11. 

  PHRASE You use it in expressions such as it's not that or it's not just that when you are giving a reason for something and are suggesting that there are several other reasons. 用于(it's not that)、(it's not just that)等表达法中，表示提出一个理由并同时暗示还有其它一些理由

  例：

  It's not that I didn't want to be with my family.

  并不是因为我不愿意和我的家人在一起。

• 12. 

  if it wasn't for →see be

• 13. 

  the INTERNET DOMAIN NAME for Italy 意大利