| 正面 | 322.whether 英 ['weðə]美 ['wɛðɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、under + stand.2、字面含义：stand in the midst of.3、站在其中，沐浴在知识的海洋里，所谓内行、内行，身在其中，才解其味也；因此，只有身在其中\置身其中，才能理解、明白。4、At here, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *enter- "between, among". 另见：undertake.conj. 是否；不论pron. 两个中的哪一个 例句： 1. The key issue was whether the four defendants acted dishonestly.关键问题是4名被告是否存在欺诈行为。 whether 是否来自古英语hwether,两人中的一个，是否，hwe-,谁，-ther,比较级后缀，表加强，词源同other,interior,exterior。引申义到底是谁，两个中的谁，是否。词义演变比较yesterday,day. whetherwhether: [OE] Whether was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the interrogative base *khwa-, *khwe- (source of English what, who, etc) and the comparative suffix *-theraz, which also occurs in English other. Its Germanic relatives include German weder ‘neither’ and Swedish hvar ‘each’. English either goes back to a Germanic compound formed from the ancestors of ay and whether.=> either, otherwhether (conj.)Old English hwæðer, hweðer "which of two, whether," from Proto-Germanic *gihwatharaz (cognates Old Saxon hwedar, Old Norse hvarr, Gothic huaþar, Old High German hwedar "which of the two," German weder "neither"), from interrogative base *khwa- "who" (see who) + comparative suffix *-theraz (cognate compounds in Sanskrit katarah, Avestan katara-, Greek poteros, Latin uter "which of the two, either of two," Lithuanian katras "which of the two," Old Church Slavonic koteru "which"). Its comparative form is either. Also in Old English as a pronoun and adjective. Phrase whether or not (also whether or no) recorded from 1650s." |