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those who/that/which

核心问题

有一本教辅材料上说:“当先行词是 those 时,定语从句的关系词只能用 who(或 whom)。”果真是这样吗?

词典解答

those指人时,其关系代词既可以使用who,也可以使用that;those指物时,其关系代词既可以使用that,也可以使用which(当关系代词作宾语时,则可以省略)(参见those 1^{1} ):

  1. Those (people) who would like to go on the trip should put their names on the list. 那些要去旅行的人须在表中登记姓名。

  2. The best readers are those that know how to skip, and I'm a good skipper. 善于阅读的人是知道怎样跳读的人,而我就是好的跳读者。

  3. For two millennium, Christian soldiers had defended their faith against those who tried to displace it. (Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code) 两千年来,基督教卫士们一直保卫着他们的信仰,抗击着企图取代它的各种信仰。(《达·芬奇密码》)

  4. Throw away all those which are unfit for use. 把那些不适用的东西都扔掉。请做下面的英语试题: All of the flowers now raised here have developed from those ____ in the forest. A. once they grew B. they grew once C. that once grew D. once grew

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