| 单词 | who |
| 释义 | who I. 1. < who were appointed to serve on the committee > < tell me who was elected president > or to ask for identification < who is that at the door > < find out who they are > or to question someone's character, status, authority, or antecedents < who are you to give orders to us > or to represent a personal name not properly heard or understood < Mrs. who > or to introduce a rhetorical question implying the answer no one or nobody < who cares > < who wouldn't > < by the cut of my clothes, the pattern of my shoes and who knows what unconscious attributes, he recognized me as an American — Saul Bellow > — used by speakers on all educational levels and by many reputable writers, though disapproved by some grammarians, as the object of a verb or a following preposition < who did I see but a Spanish lady — Padraic Colum > < who do you think I got a letter from — Walt Whitman > < do not know who the message is from — G.K.Chesterton > or less frequently as the object of a preceding preposition < between who — Shakespeare > < stolen from who — Ruth Park > — compare what, whom, whose 2. a. < who tells me true, though in his tale lie death — Shakespeare > < who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, shall never find it more — Shakespeare > < his almost obsessional anxiety for personal sincerity, suffer who may — Sean O'Faolain > — used without criticism as the subject of the clause that it introduces; used by speakers on all educational levels and by reputable writers, though disapproved by some grammarians, as the object of a verb in the clause that it introduces < I serve who I like — Irish Digest > — compare what, whom b. archaic (1) < a fair wrought car …: who stood therein did seem of great renown — John Keats > (2) plural in construction < if there be who convulsively insist upon it — Walt Whitman > 3. — used as a function word to introduce a restrictive or nonrestrictive relative clause and to serve as a substitute within that clause for the substantive modified by that clause; used especially in reference to persons < any reader who wishes to join with me in this argument — J.E.Baker > < novelists who write … as they must — Malcolm Cowley > < my father, who was a lawyer > but also in reference to groups < Congress, who can always speak more precisely — C.P.Curtis > < a generation who had known nothing but war — R.B.West > < the English firms who opened branches in New York — Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt > or in reference to animals < these were a pair of owls, who … showed little sign of alarm — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < one of those dogs who … fawn all over tramps — Nigel Balchin > or in reference to inanimate objects especially with the implication that the object is felt to have personality < dolls of an older age bracket, who are supposed to provide a little girl with a feeling of having a younger sister — New Yorker > or with the implication that the reference is really to a person or persons possessing or producing or operating the object < a number of deep southern accents who assert that they have been immensely impressed — Blake Clark > < a late legendary accretion, contradicted by earlier sources who maintain a Davidic ancestry — F.M.Cross > < the plaintive woodwinds who opened the passage — Marcia Davenport > — sometimes used after such with the implication that the action or state expressed in the clause introduced by who is a real or appropriate consequence of what is expressed by such or by the phrase containing such < such who … no beauty lack — Shakespeare > — used universally and without criticism as the subject of the clause that it introduces; used by speakers on all educational levels and by many reputable writers, though disapproved by some grammarians, as the object of a verb in the clause that it introduces < old peasants … who, if isolated from their surroundings, one would expect to see in a village church — John Berger > or less frequently as the object of a preceding or following preposition in the clause that it introduces < of who I know nothing — Raymond Paton > — compare that IV 1, which, whom, whose • - as who - as who should say - who is who II. < I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it — Carl Sandburg > |
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