would

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
    — When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
动词 v.
  1. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. auxiliary
    — On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
  2. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London) auxiliary
    — When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.
  3. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. auxiliary
    — I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.
  4. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Wanted to. archaic,auxiliary
    — And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel.
  5. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. archaic,auxiliary
    — At which time he told me, he would to London that week, and so to Oxford.
  6. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Wished, desired (something). auxiliary,obsolete
  7. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another. auxiliary
    — If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
  8. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action. auxiliary
    — I would love to come and visit.
  9. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc. auxiliary
    — I would ask you all to sit down.
  10. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. auxiliary
    — It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I would write and complain.
  11. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption. auxiliary
    — She looked as if she would be sick.
  12. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.). auxiliary
    — Sorry, officer, I wouldn't know anything about the crime, since I was nowhere near the scene.
  13. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? auxiliary
    — Would you pass the salt, please?
  14. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only". archaic,auxiliary
    — PARIS My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.
  15. A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.; Might desire; wish (something). archaic,auxiliary
    — What dost thou professe? What would’st thou with vs?
感叹词 intj.
  1. Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,idiomatic,slang

词形变化

wou'd alternative,obsolete woulds plural wou'd alternative,obsolete wou'd alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
be so good as to kindly please
衍生词
as fate would have it as luck would have it be it what it would butter would not melt in someone's mouth chance would be a fine thing claret would be port if it could do unto others as you would have them do unto you Eddie would go face that would stop a clock how would I know if pigs had wings, they would fly I would I would rather die never-would-be the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet what would Jesus do what would you like who would have guessed who would have known who would have thought it who would have thunk it would give a Jew's eye would have liked to would it hurt would it kill someone would lose one's head if it wasn't attached would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on would lose one's head if it weren't attached would the real someone please stand up would you believe would you believe it would you be so kind as to would you like to go out with me would you mind putting on your seat belt you would think
相关词
will wouldn't wouldst would like would've

词源

词源 1
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the analogy of the former two).
词源 2
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the analogy of the former two).
词源 3
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will.
The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the analogy of the former two).
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