| 正面 | 35.what 英 [wɒt]美 [wɑt]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 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。pron. 什么；多么；多少adj. 什么；多么；何等adv. 到什么程度，在哪一方面int. 什么；多么 例句： 1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。 what 什么来自PIE*kwo,印欧语疑问代词根，词源同who,where,why,how. whatwhat: [OE] What traces its history right back to Indo-European *qwod, which also produced Latin quod ‘what’. The Germanic descendant of this was *khwat, which has evolved into German was, Dutch wat, Swedish vad, Danish hvad, and English what.what (pron.)Old English hwæt, referring to things in abstraction; also "why, wherefore; indeed, surely, truly," from Proto-Germanic pronoun *hwat (cognates: Old Saxon hwat, Old Norse hvat, Danish hvad, Old Frisian hwet, Dutch wat, Old High German hwaz, German was, Gothic hva "what"), from PIE *kwod, neuter singular of *kwos "who" (see who). Corresponding to Latin quid. Meaning "what did you say?" is recorded from c. 1300. As an adjective and adverb, in Old English. As a conjunction in late Old English. Exclamatory use was in Old English. What the _____ (devil, etc.) as an exclamation of surprise is from late 14c. As an interrogative expletive at the end of sentences from 1891; common in affected British speech. Or what as an alternative end to a question is first attested 1766. What have you "anything else one can think of" is from 1925. What's up? "what is happening?" first recorded 1881. "To give one what for is to respond to his remonstrant what for? by further assault" [Weekley]. The phrase is attested from 1873; what for? as introducing a question is from 1760. To know what is what is from c. 1400; I'll tell you what to emphasize what is about to be said is in Shakespeare." |