为什么是她<br />英文文法已经有人觉得头痛，但和法文中连毛笔、铅笔、书本、日历，都分属于阴性或阳性，名词不同，动词不同，文法结构完全不同，相形之下，英文文法已算比较易学。<br />英语中一般名词虽无性别之分，也有些例外，例如不少人都知道的，是国家这个名词，不用it为代名词，要用she(受词为her)；船只这名词，也用she 为代名词，不称为it。<br />为什么呢？据说因[国家]是每个男人都爱[她]。船则因为she has a buoy in every port。<br />后者是一句俏皮话，因Bouy(浮筒)和Boy(男孩)同音。

在《the west wing》中有个片断，美国的一架飞机被叙利亚打落，而飞机上有个总统的好友，并且他的女儿刚出生3个月，美国总统非常生气，其中他用she替代飞机，幕僚长纠正他，要求使用it，因为用she的感情色彩太浓，会被政敌抨击

When I was a  freshman or a sophomore, yes, I say freshman or sophomore because I didn&#39;t read &#39;crazy english&#39; magazine when I was a junior or a senior, that was the period I used to play football, watch video, stick to my pc all day and night to play KOF/FF7/FIFA/NFS, I read a magazine called &#39;crazy english&#39; which always issued with a tape having all songs introduced in the magazine and got a song named &quot;she&quot;, the only thing that I can remember now is the first line of the lyric which I considered very cool, &quot;she--, walking like a killer&quot;.<br /><br />I just googled it and got the full piece:  <br /><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->She, walking like a killer,<br />She, another night another pillow.<br /><br />Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,<br />No education, it&#39;s the arse of the nation,<br />She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...<br /><br />She, sh-shaking up the karma,<br />She, injecting marijuana,<br /><br />Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,<br />No education it&#39;s the arse of the nation,<br />She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...<br />she...<br /><br />Nowhere faces, nowhere places, no one wants to be,<br />No stimulation in this privatisation,<br />She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is she.<br /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->