3月 07 2021
第三人称的难题
在英语句子中选择正确的第三人称代词，曾经很简单，现在已经不是了。
英国《卫报》昨天的一篇报道的第一段是这样的：
The International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has written a poem responding to the controversy that broke out after they withdrew from the job of translating Amanda Gorman’s poetry into Dutch, writing that they took the decision because they were “able to grasp when it / isn’t your place”.
报道的作者大概也知道读者会对其中的“has”和“they”的错位产生疑问，于是在文章第二段第一句以最简便的方式做了解释：
The non-binary author and poet had been announced…
