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正面 191.where
英 [weə]美 [wɛr]

背面
释义:
adv. 在哪里pron. 哪里conj. 在…的地方n. 地点
例句:
1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.不管你生活在哪里,你有多少岁,总有新东西要学习,毕竟,生活总是充满惊喜。

1. 连。=> 美国著名的关于二战的电视剧《兄弟连》=> Easy company, Fox company.
where 哪里来自PIE*kwo,印欧语疑问代词根,词源同who,where,why,how.
wherewhere: [OE] Where is an ancient Indo-European formation derived from the interrogative base *qwo- (source also of English what, who, etc). In Germanic (where its relatives include Dutch waar, Swedish var, Danish hvor, and the war- of German warum ‘why’) it has largely become limited in its application to ‘place’, but in other branches of the Indo-European language family it performs other interrogative functions: Latin cūr ‘why’, for instance, Welsh pyr ‘why’, and Sanskrit kárhi- ‘when’, beside Lithuanian kur ‘where’.where (adv.)Old English hwær, hwar "at what place," from Proto-Germanic adverb *hwar (cognates: Old Saxon hwar, Old Norse hvar, Old Frisian hwer, Middle Dutch waer, Old High German hwar, German wo, Gothic hvar "where"), equivalent to Latin cur, from PIE interrogative base *kwo- (see who). Where it's at attested from 1903."

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