| 单词 | how |
| 释义 | how I. 1. a. < how explain behavior so contrary to the principles of good authorship — G.M.Fess > < the continuing problems of … how to say what we mean — Stuart Chase > < learn how to enter a room properly > < tell him how to do it > — often used as an intensive < how they laughed > b. < at his wit's end regarding how to support himself — C.S.Forester > < question of how to increase the benefits under the … Retirement System — W.J.Kennedy > c. obsolete < by ransom or how else — John Milton > 2. a. < how little we know of human motives > < how far can he be trusted > b. < concerned with how much to eat > < decided how deep to cut > < how hard do you plan to make it > 3. a. < how are things at home > < how are you > < how are you off for money > b. < how is the market today > 4. a. < in the face of his own knowledge, how can he make such a statement — Weston LaBarre > : for what possible or plausible reason < how could he have said that > — often used with ever < how can I ever leave you > b. < how did you come to sell your house > 5. a. archaic < how art thou called — Shakespeare > b. < how are we to interpret such behavior > 6. a. < how if, when I am laid into the tomb, I awake before the time — Shakespeare > < how if I had denounced you when you forced your way in there — Max Peacock > b. < how about the other one, do you want it too > < how say you, maiden, will you wed — W.S.Gilbert > or in requests to repeat what has not been understood < how is that again > c. dialect 7. — used to express surprise or admiration < how do you like that > • - and how - how about - how come - how do you do - how so II. 1. a. (1) < it was odd how writers never seemed to have anything to do except write — Martha Gellhorn > also (2) < knows how small the town is > (3) < be careful how you talk > b. < told them how he had a situation — Charles Dickens > 2. < a reader can shift his attention how he likes — William Empson > III. 1. < most of the film is devoted to the grim hows and not the difficult whys of battle — John McCarten > 2. < the eternal whys and hows of small children — Jeanne Massey > IV. 1. Scotland 2. Scotland V. now dialect England VI. 1. now chiefly dialect — used to attract attention or express greeting < how now, my masters! > or to urge on (as a sheep dog) < how sheep! > 2. chiefly Scotland — used to express pain or grief VII. variant of howe VIII. — used as a greeting especially in imitation of American Indian speech IX. — a communications code word for the letter h X. |
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