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where AHD[hwâr, wâr] D.J.[hweə, weə]K.K.[hwɛr, wɛr]adv.（副词）- At or in what place:哪里：在…地方：Where is the telephone?电话在哪儿?
- In what situation or position:某种情势或位置：Where would we be without your help?如果不是你的帮助我们将会处于何等境地呢?
- From what place or source:从何处：Where did you get this idea?你从哪里弄到这个主意?
- To what place; toward what end:到哪里，朝什么目的：Where is this argument leading?这场争论将导致什么结果?
conj.（连接词）- At what or which place:在那里：She moved to the city, where jobs are available.她搬到了城里，在那里工作好找
- In a place in which:在…地方：He lives where the climate is mild.他住在一个气候温暖的地方
- In any place or situation in which; wherever:无论哪里：无论在什么地方或处于何种情况；无论哪里：Where there's smoke, there's fire.哪里有烟，哪里就有火
- To a place in which:到…地方：We should go where it is quieter.我们应该到更安静些的地方去
- To a place or situation in which:到…地方或…的地步的形势：They will go where they are happy.他们想到他们快乐的地方去
n.（名词）- The place or occasion:地方，场所：We know the when but not the where of it.我们知道时间却不知道地点
- What place, source, or cause:何处，什么来源，什么原因：Where are you from?你从哪里来?
- Middle English 中古英语
- from Old English hwǣr * see k wo- 源自 古英语 hwǣr * 参见 k wo-
- Whenwhere is used to refer to a point of origin, the prepositionfrom is required: Where did she come from? When it is used to refer to a point of destination,the prepositionto is generally superfluous: Where is she going? ( preferable toWhere is she going to? ). When it is used to refer to the place at which an event or a situation is located,the use ofat is widely regarded as regional or colloquial: Where is the station? (not Where is the station at? ). The idiomatic phrasewhere it's at, widely used in the 1960's to refer to "the current state of things,” is now largely pass?, except when used for stylistic effect: 当where 被用来指起源方面时， 介词from 就需要用上： 她从哪里来? 当它被用来指目的地时，介词to 就通常是多余的： 她要去哪里? ( 比起她要向哪里去? 更可取）。 当它被用来指事件所发生的场合或一种局面形势所处的地方时，使用at 则被广泛认作是地区性的或口语化的： 车站在哪里? （而不是 车站位于什么地方? )。 惯用语短语where it's at 在20世纪60年代广泛被用来指“事情的当前状态”，现已很大程度上过时了， 除非当我们用它来加强文体效果： "Generally, I knew where he was at, but couldn't always tell where he was coming from" (Robert M. Adams).See Usage Note at why “通常来说，我知道他在什么地方，但我却不总能说出他从哪里来” （罗伯特·M·亚当斯） 参见 why
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