how
名词 n.
副词 adv.
连词 conj.
感叹词 intj.
英 /haʊ/
美 /haʊ/|/hæɔ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies.
— Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
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The means by which something is accomplished.
— I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
- In northern England, a low hill.
副词 adv.
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To what degree or extent.
— How often do you practice?
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In what manner
— Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
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In what manner:; By what means.
— How do you solve this puzzle? –Sorry, I can't remember how.
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In what manner:; With overtones of why, for what reason.
— How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
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In what manner:; In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
— How are you fixed for money?
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In what manner:; With what meaning or effect.
— How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
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In what manner:; By what title or what name.
— "How art thou called? Thy name make known; Thy father's name and family,—tell me thy father's and thine own."
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In what manner:; At what price, for what amount (of money).
— Shal. How a score of ewes now? Sil. Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds.
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In what state or condition.
— How are you?
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In the manner in which.
— I said it exactly how he said it.
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In any manner in which; in whatever way; however.
— People should be free to live how they want.
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In which.
— The way how you walk is funny.
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Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
— How very interesting!
连词 conj.
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That, the fact that.
— She told me how her father was a doctor.
感叹词 intj.
- What?, pardon?
- A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.
词汇关系
衍生词
and how
anyhow
any old how
ask how high when someone says jump
a straw shows how the wind blows
boo how doy
die how one lived
die just how one lived
don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
everyhow
forhow
get it how one gets it
get it how one lives
get it how one lives it
how about
how about no
how about that
how about them apples
how are things
how are you
how are you diddling
how are you doing
how are you getting along
how are you going
how are you keeping
how bist
how came you so
how can you sleep at night
howcatchem
how come
how dare you
how did it go
how do
how do I get to
how do I get to the airport
how do I get to the bus station
how do I get to the train station
how do ye do
how do you do
how do you like
how do you like that
how do you like them apples
how do you mean
how do you pronounce this word
how do you say … in English
how do you sleep at night
how do you spell this word
how-d'ye-do
how embarrassment
how far
how farest thou
how goes it
how goes the battle
how goes the enemy
how goes the war
how long
how long is a piece of string
how many
how many languages do you speak
how many siblings do you have
how manyth
how much
how much does it cost
how much do I owe you
how much do you charge
how much is it
howness
how no
how now
how old are you
how say you
how see
how should I know
howso
how so
howsofar
how's your father
how the cow ate the cabbage
how the mighty have fallen
how the other half lives
how the sausage gets made
how the sausage is made
how the turntables
how the wind is blowing
how-to
how to
how-to-vote card
how very dare you
how would I know
how you say
it is how it is
it's not what you say but how you say it
know-how
know how many beans make five
know how to pick 'em
know how to walk before one can run
mind how you go
nohow
no matter how one slices it
how the land lies
silly-how
snow-how
somehow
teach grandma how to suck eggs
that's how the cookie crumbles
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Germanic *hwō
Old English hū
Middle English how
English how
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), North Frisian ho, hü, hur (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Germanic *hwō
Old English hū
Middle English how
English how
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), North Frisian ho, hü, hur (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
词源 2
From Middle English howe, hough, hogh, partly from Old English hōh (“promontory”), and partly from Old Norse haugr (“a how, mound”). Compare Old French höe (“hillock, hill”), from the same Germanic source.
词源 3
From a Siouan language; compare Lakota háu. Alternatively from Wyandot haau.
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