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正面 41.if
英 [ɪf]美 [ɪf]

背面
释义:
conj. (表条件)如果;即使;是否;(表假设)假如n. 条件;设想
例句:
1. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.如果你等待,发生的只有变老。

1. 也就是说它前后呈现出一种一致的比较、对照关系。2. 即这种对照结果是:相应的,一致的,符合的,同时的,顺着的,顺应的,匹配的上的对照或比较。3. if / though (即使、纵然) => as if / as though. => 也就是说好像跟即使、纵然这种假设的情况一致、一样似的。
if 如果来自PIE*i,那个,那里,它,词源同id,idem,yonder.用作连词指如果。
ifif: [OE] The Old English version of if was gif, but its initial g was closer to modern English y in pronunciation than to g, and the conjunction gradually evolved through Middle English yif to if. It is not known where it ultimately came from; it is evidently connected with Old High German iba ‘condition’ and Old Norse ef ‘doubt’, but whether it started life as a noun like these or was from the beginning a conjunction is not clear. Its surviving Germanic relatives are German ob ‘whether’ and Dutch of ‘if’.if (conj.)Old English gif (initial g- in Old English pronounced with a sound close to Modern English -y-), from Proto-Germanic *ja-ba (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse ef, Old Frisian gef, Old High German ibu, German ob, Dutch of "if, whether"), from PIE pronominal stem *i- [Watkins]; Klein, OED suggest probably originally from an oblique case of a noun meaning "doubt" (compare Old High German iba "condition, stipulation, doubt," Old Norse if "doubt, hesitation," Swedish jäf "exception, challenge"). As a noun from 1510s."

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