| 单词 | which |
| 释义 | which I. 1. a. < which tie should I wear with this shirt > < deciding which candidate he is going to vote for > < kept a record of which employees took their vacations in July and which ones in August > b. obsolete < from which lord to which lady — Shakespeare > 2. < it will not fit, turn it which way you like > 3. — used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to modify a noun in that clause and to refer together with that noun to a word or word group in a preceding clause or to an entire preceding clause or sentence or longer unit of discourse < that a new currency should be made ready for any possible emergency, which currency would … be available for immediate use — Jack Bennett > < the word occurs as a Yiddish loan in German, which language might thus have been the medium of transmission — Thomas Pyles > < a licensed practitioner of medicine of the state of Tennessee, which practitioner must also sign the prescription — Bulletin of Meharry Medical College > < that this city is a rebellious city …: for which cause was this city destroyed — Ezra 4:15 (Authorized Version) > < Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise. Which things are an allegory — Gal 4:22-4 (Authorized Version) > — sometimes used archaically with preceding the < I am apponted a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For the which cause I also suffer these things — 2 Tim 1:11-12 (Authorized Version) > II. 1. a. < which of those houses do you live in > < which of you want tea and which want lemonade > < he asked which he should take > < he is down at the lake swimming or canoeing, I don't know which > b. < I have many ill qualities. Which is one — Shakespeare > — used dialectally by itself to ask for repetition of an utterance not properly heard or understood; sometimes used in informal speech in connection with other words to ask for repetition or explanation of the particular part of an utterance that has not been properly heard or understood < he said he wanted a which > 2. < take which you like > 3. — used as a function word to introduce a restrictive or nonrestrictive relative clause and to serve as a substitute within that clause for the substantive modified by that clause; used in any grammatical relation within the relative clause except that of a possessive; used especially in reference to animals, inanimate objects, groups, or ideas < fish which are dangerous at some particular time of the year — Margaret Mead > < grapefruit juice … sweetened to improve its palatability for the rats, which would not otherwise drink it — Henry Hicks > < the bonds which represent the debt — G.B.Robinson > < the kind of … church which you would expect a decent body of merchants to erect — Douglas Goldring > < a generation which had been taught … to appreciate the beauty of simplicity — Bernard Groom > < they form the Samnite tribes, which settled south and southeast of Rome — Ernst Pulgram > < some of the difficulties which must be guarded against — Eastman Kodak Monthly Abstract Bulletin > < new problems arose, the investigation of which would necessitate additional material — Robert Balk > — used freely in reference to persons as recently as the 17th century < our Father which art in heaven — Mt 6:9 (Authorized Version) > and still occasionally so used < a human which … would unhesitatingly sacrifice a score of opossums for a real scientific need — William Beebe > < think of the children which are threatened — H.R.Hays > but usually with some implication of emphasis on the function or role of the person rather than on the person himself < the Republican presidential electors which we had chosen at the state convention — W.A.White > < chiefly they wanted husbands, which they got easily — Lynn White > — used by speakers on all educational levels and by many reputable writers, though disapproved by some grammarians, in reference to an idea expressed by a word or group of words that is not necessarily a noun or noun phrase < the attitude is … that failure to publish is tantamount to suppression, which of course it isn't — R.H.Rovere > or in reference to a clause or sentence < in August of that year he resigned that post, after which he engaged in ranching — Current Biography > < I have forgotten them now. Which makes no difference — W.A.White > — sometimes used parenthetically in reference to a clause that is yet to come or is not yet complete < yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and — which is more — you'll be a man — Rudyard Kipling > < he demonstrated — which was indeed the truth — that the days of capitalism were numbered — Christopher Hollis > — used regularly to introduce a restrictive relative clause having as its antecedent the demonstrative pronoun that < ultimate truth still remains in that outside world of that which is — Weston La Barre > — sometimes used archaically with preceding the < this time of long silence, of reverie, in the which … his eyes were placidly shut — Maurice Hewlett > — sometimes used after so or such with the implication that the action or state expressed in the clause introduced by which is a real or appropriate consequence of what is expressed by the phrase containing so or such < there is not any argument so absurd, which is not daily received — Jeremy Bentham > < there rooted betwixt them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now — Shakespeare > — sometimes used dialectally with a following personal pronoun or possessive adjective referring to the same antecedent < she had a big something under her arm which I couldn't make out what it was — Helen Eustis > < the man which his head was cut off — Western Folklore > — occasionally used dialectally as a word that merely introduces a clause or sentence and has no reference to any expressed or implied antecedent < which we had a small game — Bret Harte > — compare that IV 1, who, whose, what I 3a • - which is which |
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