| 单词 | 哪儿 |
| 释义 | 〔apropos〕Apropos, where were you yesterday?顺便问一句，你昨天在哪儿?〔keep〕Where do you keep your saw?你把锯放在哪儿?〔wherever〕He seems to make enemies wherever he goes.他看上去走到哪儿敌人就树到哪儿〔buster〕Say, buster, where are you going?老兄，你要上哪儿去?〔ought〕You ought to have been there; it was great fun.你真应该去哪儿；太好玩了〔mend〕You can't tell where the mend is.你简直看不出补丁在哪儿〔blaze〕Where in blazes are my keys?我的钥匙到底在哪儿?〔drone〕"Somewhere an electric fan droned without end"(William Styron)“一台电扇不知在哪儿没完没了地嗡嗡着”(威廉·斯蒂伦)〔someplace〕"I didn't care where I was from so long as it was someplace else"(Garrison Keillor)See Usage Note at everyplace “只要是别的一个地方，我就不在乎我是从哪儿来的”(加里森·谢勒) 参见 everyplace〔blagging〕"the street corner, the rum shop, the crossroads, wherever hanging out, or . . . blagging, takes place"(Roger D. Abrahams)“街角、酒店、十字路口，不论在哪儿都有人聚在一块或者…闲聊天”(罗杰D.亚伯拉罕斯)〔wherever〕Where ever have you been so long?See Usage Note at whatever 你究竟在哪儿待了这么长时间? 参见 whatever〔lemon〕Although we know neither where the lemon was first grownnor when it first came to Europe,we do know from its name alone that it came to us from the Middle East,because we can trace its etymological path.One of the earliest if not the earliest occurrences of our word is found in a Middle English customs document of 1420-1421.The Middle English word, which was of the formlimon, goes back to Old Frenchlimon, showing that yet another delicacy passed into England through France.The Old French word probably came from Italianlimone, another step on the route that leads back to the Arabic wordlaymūn or līmūn, which comes from the Persian wordlīmūn. 虽然我们既不知道柠檬是在哪儿被最早种植的，也不知道它是什么时候传到欧洲的，但是我们却能单从它的名字确切地判断出它是从中东地区传到我们的，因为我们可以追溯出它的语源的发展道路。如果不是最早出现的话，最早的发现记录于1420年至1421年之间的一份中古英语海关文件中。这个中古英语单词的形式是limon ， 可以追溯到古代法语中的limon 一词， 它表明又一种美味佳肴由法国传入了英国。这个古代法语单词很可能来源于意大利单词limone ， 这就更朝前一步地回到了阿拉伯语中的laymun 或 limun ， 这一单词来源于波斯语limun 〔whence〕Whence came this traveler?这个旅行者从哪儿来?〔wherein〕showed them wherein they were wrong.告诉他们错在哪儿了 |
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