中英慣用短語:
  • v.  他已兩次求婚, 均未成功.   He had proposed marriage, unsuccessfully, twice already
  • v.  他已寫了50份求職申請書了.   50 job applications
  • indef det  他已寫了幾本關於印度的書.   He's written several books about India
  •   他已幾次邀請我外出.   He's asked me out several times already
  • v.  他已擊中球獲兩個六分(兩次擊球到邊界綫, 每次得六分).   He's already hit two sixes, ie scored two boundaries worth six runs each
  • v.  他已變成老守財奴了.   He has grown into an old miser
  •   他已回傢去了, 是嗎?   He's gone home, hasn't he?
  • v.  他已經戒煙了.   He had forsworn smoking
  • v.  他已放棄了她還活著的一切希望.   He had relinquished all hope that she was alive
  • v.  他已死了, 希望他再活過來的想法也是枉然.   He's dead and it's no use wishing him alive again
  • n.  他已沒有可能成為候選人.   He was ruled out as a possible candidate
  • v.  他已訓練他的狗耍些靈巧的把戲.   He's taught his dog some clever tricks
  • adj.  他已跟她結了婚, 可她又愛上他姐夫, 而且...哎, 太亂了, 說不清! Cf 參看 complex1.   He's married to her, and she's in love with his brother-in-law, and...oh, it's too complicated to explain!
  • n.  他已辭職了, 我知道這是真事.   I know it for a fact, ie I know that it is really true
  • n.  他已長大了, 對集郵不再感興趣了, 完全失去了興趣了.   he's lost all interest in it
  • n.  他年輕時飽經憂患.   He suffered much embarrassment in his youth