who
pron. 谁
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教材释义与例句
谁；什么人
used to ask or talk about which person is involved, or what the name of a person is
Who locked the door?
谁锁的门？
Who do you work for?
你为谁工作？
Who's that guy with your wife?
和你妻子在一起的那个人是谁？
They never found out who the murderer was.
他们一直未查出谁是凶犯。
She wondered who had sent the flowers.
她不知道是谁送的花。
释义与例句
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1.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
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1.
What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
Who says they care? —They themselves do.
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2.
Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
With antecedent as subject.
That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining)
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3.
Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
With antecedent as object: whom.
That's the man who I saw earlier.
My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend.
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4.
Whoever, he who, they who.
Who insults my mother insults me.
Give it to who deserves it.
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5.
Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
非正式Who are the Miami Heat?
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whose
方言 非裔美国英语Who phone just rang?
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词源
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís. The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h. Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
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