| 单词 | how about |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow about a. elliptical for ‘How is it?’ or ‘How say you?’ and used interjectionally, the modern equivalent being ‘What?’ or ‘What!’ (= French quoi!) archaic (except in how about…?). In U.S. colloquial speech ‘How?’ is used in asking for the repetition of something not quite understood (= French comment?).In Old English hú was prefixed to a negative question. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [adverb] > indicating a question whatOE howc1000 how aboutc1000 indeeda1616 really1753 anyhow1846 how's about?1952 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 26 Hu ne synt ge selran þonne hig? a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3077 Hu? haue ge wrong! 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2v Whow? I go about to disgrace thee? a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 68 Elb. My wife Sir? whom I detest before heauen, and your honour. Esc. How? thy wife? Elb. I Sir. View more context for this quotation 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 362 How Senior..have you not Authority? 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xii. 190 ‘How,’ interrupted young Mr. Thornhill, ‘this to my face!’ 1846 O. W. Holmes Rhymed Lesson 506 Don't say ‘How?’ for ‘What?’ 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 88 I was thinking,—he said indistinctly—How? What is't?—said our landlady. 18.. Emerson in Harper's Mag. (1884) Feb. 460/1 How about Matthew Arnold? < as lemmas |
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