单词 | how do you do? |
释义 | > as lemmashow do you do? a. In what condition or state? how are you?: (in quot. 1918) used ironically in sense ‘indeed!’ how do you do? (formerly how do you?): common phrases used in inquiring as to a person's health. See also how-do-ye phr. and n., how-do-you-do phr. and n. Also, how goes it? = how-do-you-do phr. and n. 1; how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?); how do?: = how-do-you-do phr. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [adverb] > how or in what condition or state howa1400 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > terms of greeting God give you good dayc1275 hail be thou (also ye)c1275 pax vobisc1275 how do ye?1570 (good, fair) time of day (to you)1597 how goes it?1598 I salute youa1616 savea1616 how do you find yourself?a1646 how-do-you-do1697 how do?1886 how are you popping (up)?1894 how's (less frequently how are) tricks?1915 how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?)1926 how's life?1931 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] to iwissea1000 mid iwissea1000 in wisc1000 to wis(se)c1000 without(en (any) weenc1175 sans fail1297 thereof no strife1297 but werea1300 forouten werea1300 out of werea1300 without werea1300 without deceit1303 for certainc1320 it is to wittingc1320 withouten carec1320 without nayc1330 without noc1330 without (but out of) dread1340 no doubtc1380 without distancec1390 no fresea1400 out of doubta1400 without doubta1400 for, (in, at obs.), of, to (a) certaintyc1400 withouten stance14.. hazel woods shakea1413 of, on, in warrantisec1440 sure enough?1440 without question?1440 wythout diswerec1440 without any dispayrec1470 for (also of) a surety?a1475 in (also for) surenessa1475 of certainc1485 without any (also all) naya1500 out of question?1526 past question?1526 for sure1534 what else1540 beyond (also out of, past, without) (all) peradventure1542 to be a bidden by1549 out of (also without) all cry1565 with a witness1579 upon my word1591 no question1594 out of all suspicion1600 for a certain1608 without scruple1612 to be sure1615 that's pos1710 in course1722 beyond (all) question1817 (and) no mistake1818 no two ways about it (also that)1818 of course1823 bien entendu1844 yessiree1846 you bet you1857 make no mistake1876 acourse1883 sans doute1890 how are you?1918 you bet your bippy1968 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20089 ‘Alas! alas! alas!’ said sco, ‘How mai i live, how mai i be!’ 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 4 What do ye? how is it with you? a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. viii. 81 How do thay in Gessen, The Iues, can ye me say? 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 35 How doest thou my heart? 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Cij How doth she now for wits? 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes How now? how goes it? go to, it is well. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 77 How would you be, If he..should But iudge you, as you are? View more context for this quotation 1764 T. Reid Let. in Wks. I. 40/2 After I have given you so full an account of my own state, spiritual and temporal, how goes it with you? 1799 R. B. Sheridan Pizarro Prol. 4 Nodding to booted beaux—‘How'do, how'do?’ a1822 P. B. Shelley Magn. Lady v How feel you now? 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 67 Several dozen of ‘How-are-you's?’ hailed the old gentleman's arrival. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xi. 190 Well, master Andrew, how fare you? 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 123 How's little Miss Sharp? 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam iv. 4 O heart, how fares it with thee now. View more context for this quotation 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 79/2 How-do, how d'you do? 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 147 ‘Well, how goes it, Reb Moshé?’ said Reb Shemuel with his cheery smile. 1918 J. Joyce Exiles i. 2 Beatrice. Did he practise the piano while I was away? Brigid. Practise, how are you! 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks viii. 86 They halloed and yelled to him: ‘H'lo, Red!’ ‘How's things?’ 1928 H. Crane Let. 27 Mar. (1965) 321 How goes it with your translations..? a1930 D. H. Lawrence Mod. Lover (1934) 192 Hello, you two. How's things? 1934 Passing Show 27 Jan. 5/4 Hey, Morrison, old socks. How's things? 1939 C. Belton Outside Law in N.Z. xxv. 129 ‘Hallo. How are things?’ I greeted him. 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood i. iv. 90 ‘How do, Father?’ said Gemini. 1941 Coast to Coast 195 ‘G'day,’ he said. ‘How's tricks?’ 1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home i. iii. 49 How's things?.. How's tricks with you? 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 149 ‘I won't be coming around to say howdo this Friday, Irene,’ Bill said tonelessly. 1973 L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters xiv. 211 ‘How's tricks?’ he enquired. ‘I'm fine. I slept like a top.’ < as lemmas |
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