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how 音標拼音: [h'ɑʊ] ad. 如何,怎樣,多少,多么
n. 方式 如何,怎樣,多少,多?方式 How \ How\, adv. [ OE. how, hou, hu, hwu, AS. h?, from the same root as hw[= a], hw[ ae] t, who, what, pron. interrog.; akin to OS. hw[= o] w, D. hoe, cf. G. wie how, Goth. hw[= e] wherewith, hwaiwa how. [ root] 182. See { Who}, and cf. { Why}.] 1. In what manner or way; by what means or process. [ 1913 Webster] How can a man be born when he is old? -- John iii. 4. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. [ 1913 Webster] O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. -- Ps. cxix. 97. [ 1913 Webster] By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth. -- Bentley. [ 1913 Webster] 3. For what reason; from what cause. [ 1913 Webster] How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. In what state, condition, or plight. [ 1913 Webster] How, and with what reproach, shall I return? -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 5. By what name, designation, or title. [ 1913 Webster] How art thou called? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. At what price; how dear. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] How a score of ewes now? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: How is used in each sense, interrogatively, interjectionally, and relatively; it is also often employed to emphasize an interrogation or exclamation. " How are the mighty fallen!" -- 2 Sam. i. 27. Sometimes, also, it is used as a noun; -- as, the how, the when, the wherefore. -- Shelley. [ 1913 Webster] Let me beg you -- don' t say " How?" for " What?" -- Holmes. [ 1913 Webster]
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