which
英 [wɪtʃ] 美 [wɪtʃ]
- pron. 哪/那一个；哪/那一些
- adj. 哪一个；哪一些
中文词源
which 哪一件
来自古英语hwi-lic,什么样的，hwi,什么，词源同what,lic,样子，物体，词源同like。引申词义哪一个，哪一件。
英文词源
- which
- which: [OE] Etymologically, which means ‘what like, of what form or sort?’ The word was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the interrogative base *khwa-, *khwe- (source of English what, who, etc) and *līka- ‘body, form’ (source of English like and also incorporated into English each and such). Its Germanic relatives include German welch and Dutch welk ‘which’.
=> like - which (pron.)
- Old English hwilc (West Saxon, Anglian), hwælc (Northumbrian) "which," short for hwi-lic "of what form," from Proto-Germanic *hwa-lik- (cognates: Old Saxon hwilik, Old Norse hvelikr, Swedish vilken, Old Frisian hwelik, Middle Dutch wilk, Dutch welk, Old High German hwelich, German welch, Gothic hvileiks "which"), from *hwi- "who" (see who) + *likan "body, form" (cognates: Old English lic "body;" see like (adj.)). In Middle English used as a relative pronoun where Modern English would use who, as still in the Lord's Prayer. Old English also had parallel forms hwelc and hwylc, which disappeared 15c.
双语例句
- 1. He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.
- 他靠每周领取的作为病残养老金的直接转账救济支票过日子。
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- 2. Politicians want a lap-dog press which will uncritically report their propaganda.
- 政客们想要的是不问是非、甘为他们搞宣传的哈巴狗一样的新闻媒体。
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- 3. We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time.
- 我们那时在同一所学院，当时只招男生。
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- 4. We gained a rich supply of data which would normally be inaccessible.
- 我们得到了通常难以获取的大量数据。
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- 5. "Which one of these do you want?" — "I don't mind."
- “你想要这里面的哪一个？”——“都可以。”
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