单词 | whichwhich |
释义 | > as lemmaswhich..which Phrases P1. As part of the repetition of an interrogative, in senses A. 3, B. 2, esp. in which..which. Frequently used in asking about two or more persons who or things which are difficult to distinguish from each other. a. In each of two (or more) separate clauses, usually connected by a conjunction, esp. as which..and which... ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lix. 451 He us getacnode for hwelcum ðingum we sceolden ure godan weorc helan, & for hwelcum we hi sceolden cyðan. OE Homily: Larspel & Scriftboc (Corpus Cambr. 421) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 244 Ðonne anes gehwylces mannes dæda cyðað, hwylce clæne beoð, hwylce fule. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 471–2 Prestess..& dæcness..Shifftedenn hemm bitwenenn. Whillc here shollde serrfenn firrst Whillc siþþenn i þe temmple. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 2562 Me nuste Woch was on ne woch was oþer. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 17 To here..whilk were foles & whilk were wyse. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 159 To note the naturall disposition of his Hawkes: as, whiche will flee beeing high.., and whiche best, when she is kepte lowe, whiche will flee best when she is set most sharpe and eager, and whyche contrary, and whiche in a meane betweene both. 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 81. 634 The touch cannot distinguish which is foule, nor which is fair. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 407 Which ballot boxes were to be green and which red, which balls were to be of gold and which of silver..and a hundred more such trifles, were gravely considered. 1880 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxvii Trying..to make out..which was noble and which was groom. 2016 N. Alderman Power 103 You can tell which girls around you have got loads of power, and which have got none. b. In the same clause, in abbreviated expressions. (a) which is which: which is the one and which is the other. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. iii. 607 Þe firste manere hawkes takeþ onliche fleynge briddes, and þe secounde manere of hawkes..resiþ on briddis þat sittiþ one þe erþe. And þe briddis knowiþ whiche is whiche. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9290 Wel sal he cun knau quilk es quilk, Fra the wick þe god to scil. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 445 Som tyme, afer men myghten lordes knowe By there array, from oþer folke; but now A man schal..musen a long throwe Whiche is whiche. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 126 Macb. What is the night? La. Almost at oddes with morning, which is which . View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 41. ⁋4 There does not need any great Discernment to judge which are which. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xii. 304 Caroline, looking round, met a new Robert,—the real Robert... ‘Well,’ said he..‘which is which?’ 1993 J. Eugenides Virgin Suicides (2000) 122 Once again the boys weren't even sure which girl was which. (b) In similar expressions, such as which goes with which. ΚΠ a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 1010 I mene as þough I laboured me in þis To enqueren which þyng cause of which þyng be. 1565 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge 73 It is hard to fynde which keye serueth which locke. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) ii. i Come Ile go teach ye hayte and ree, gee and whoe, and which is to which hand. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. ii. 44 To see which went best with which. 2014 Good Housek. Apr. 32/2 I loved learning about which colours go with which skin tones. (c) With another interrogative word, as in who is to have which. ΚΠ 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. K4 It was not to bee iudged by the greatnes or smalnes, but which was whose. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Mark xv. 24 Casting lottes vpon them, who should take which. 1985 R. Wood in B. Nichols Movies & Methods II. ii. 220 We have exchanged so many ideas that it would no longer be possible to sort out whose was which. 1995 New Scientist 20 May 39/2 A comment page where Net-cruisers speculate about which neighbour is having an affair with whom. 2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June (Central ed.) d1/4 Neither patients nor researchers know who is in which group. P2. to tell tother from which: see tother pron. and adj. 1. < as lemmas |
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