hwɑt,wɑt,hwʌt,wʌt,hwәt,wәt; wɒt,hwɒt< what >
[基本字汇]
<<代名词>>
1 a. 什麽
What are you having for dinner? 你晚餐吃些什麽?
What did she say? 她说些什麽?
b. 什麽种类, 什麽特质
What are these objects? 这些物体是什麽?
c. 重要性, 价值
What are possessions to a dying man?对一将死的人, 财产可有价值?
2 a. (代名词的用法) 那个, 事情
Listen to what I tell you. 仔细听我告诉你的话
b. 不管什麽事情
come what may 不管如何都要来
3 ((口语)) 某事
I'll tell you what. 我会告诉你究竟什麽事
4 ((非标准用法)) (代名词的用法) 谁, 那个, 那
It's the poor what gets the blame. 穷人遭到责难
<<形容词>>
1 哪一种; 哪一个
What college are you attending? 你上那所大学?
You should know what musical that song is from?你该知道那首歌是从那个歌剧中出来的?
2 任何
They soon repaired what demage had been done.他们很快地修复损坏的东西
3 多令人惊讶
What a fool! 真是个傻瓜!
<<副词>>
如何; 怎样
What does it matter? 它怎麽样了?
<<连接词>>
(相当於 that)
I don't know but what I'll go. 我不知道但我会去
<<感叹词>>
1 (表示惊讶之意)
2 ((主英)) (用於附加问句, 表示恳求同意之意)
<<惯用语>>
what for
((口语)) 申诫; 责骂
The teacher gave the tardy student what for. 老师给迟到的学生一顿责骂
what have you
其他不用说了
a room full of chairs, lamps, radios, and what have you一个充满椅子, 灯, 收音机和其他东西的房间
what if
1 假设┅怎麽办
2 既使┅那又怎样
what it takes
成功的要素
She has what it takes to be a doctor. 她具有当医生所具备的要素
what's what
((口语)) 事情的真相, 实情
what with
考虑进去; 因为
"I've often wondered why some good crime witer...hasn't taken up with New Orleans, what with its special raffishness, its peculiar flavor of bonhomie and a slightly suspect charm." (Walker Percy)我常在想, 为何一些写犯罪故事的好作家不曾描述新奥纽良, 加上它的鄙俗,它独特的亲切感, 以及一些轻微的带点令人起疑惑的魅力