his: [OE] His originated as the standard genitive form of the masculine personal pronoun he, with the genitive ending -s – what in modern English would be expressed as of him. But comparatively early in the Old English period it began to replace the ancestral third person possessive adjective sīn (a relative of modern German sein ‘his’), and by the year 1000 it was also being used as a possessive pronoun, as in ‘It’s his’. => he
his (pron.)
Old English his (genitive of he), from Proto-Germanic *hisa (cognates: Gothic is, German es). Originally also the neuter possessive pronoun, but replaced in that sense c. 1600 by its. In Middle English, hisis was tried for the absolute pronoun (compare her/hers), but it failed to stick. For dialectal his'n, see her.
雙語例句
1. The position of the pronoun " his'shows that it is to be betoned.
代詞 “ his”在句中的位置表示此詞應加強調.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. His hands were too weak to cock his revolver.
他的手沒勁兒，扳不動左輪手槍的扳機。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
露西的冷淡與世故使得巴裏十分不快。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He finished his conversation and stood up, looking straight at me.
他說完話站起來，直視著我。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Issues such as these were not really his concern.