what 音标拼音: [w'ʌt] [hw'ʌt]
pron . 什么;所…的事物
a . 什么;多么,何等;所的…,尽可能多的
什?;所…的事物什?;多?,何等;所的…,尽可能多的
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What \
What \ (
hw [
o ^]
t ),
pron .,
a ., &
adv . [
AS .
hw [
ae ]
t ,
neuter of hw [=
a ]
who ;
akin to OS .
hwat what ,
OFries .
hwet ,
D . &
LG .
wat ,
G .
was ,
OHG .
waz ,
hwaz ,
Icel .
hvat ,
Sw . &
Dan .
hvad ,
Goth .
hwa . [
root ]
182 .
See {
Who }.]
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1 .
As an interrogative pronoun ,
used in asking questions regarding either persons or things ;
as ,
what is this ?
what did you say ?
what poem is this ?
what child is lost ?
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What see '
st thou in the ground ? --
Shak .
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What is man ,
that thou art mindful of him ? --
Ps .
viii .
4 .
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What manner of man is this ,
that even the winds and the sea obey him ! --
Matt .
viii .
27 .
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Note :
Originally ,
what ,
when ,
where ,
which ,
who ,
why ,
etc .,
were interrogatives only ,
and it is often difficult to determine whether they are used as interrogatives or relatives .
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What in this sense ,
when it refers to things ,
may be used either substantively or adjectively ;
when it refers to persons ,
it is used only adjectively with a noun expressed ,
who being the pronoun used substantively .
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2 .
As an exclamatory word :
(
a )
Used absolutely or independently ; --
often with a question following . "
What welcome be thou ." --
Chaucer .
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What ,
could ye not watch with me one hour ?
--
Matt .
xxvi .
40 .
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(
b )
Used adjectively ,
meaning how remarkable ,
or how great ;
as ,
what folly !
what eloquence !
what courage !
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What a piece of work is man ! --
Shak .
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O what a riddle of absurdity ! --
Young .
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Note :
What in this use has a or an between itself and its noun if the qualitative or quantitative importance of the object is emphasized .
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(
c )
Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense ,
as nearly equivalent to how ;
as ,
what happy boys !
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What partial judges are our love and hate !
--
Dryden .
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3 .
As a relative pronoun :
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(
a )
Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed ,
equivalent to that which ,
or those [
persons ]
who ,
or those [
things ]
which ; --
called a compound relative .
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With joy beyond what victory bestows . --
Cowper .
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I '
m thinking Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left before they see their whaleboats . --
Cooper .
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What followed was in perfect harmony with this beginning . --
Macaulay .
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I know well . . .
how little you will be disposed to criticise what comes to you from me .
--
J .
H .
Newman .
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(
b )
Used adjectively ,
equivalent to the . . .
which ;
the sort or kind of . . .
which ;
rarely ,
the . . .
on ,
or at ,
which .
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See what natures accompany what colors . --
Bacon .
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To restrain what power either the devil or any earthly enemy hath to work us woe . --
Milton .
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We know what master laid thy keel ,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel .
--
Longfellow .
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(
c )
Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use ;
as ,
he picked what good fruit he saw .
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4 .
Whatever ;
whatsoever ;
what thing soever ; --
used indefinitely . "
What after so befall ." --
Chaucer .
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Whether it were the shortness of his foresight ,
the strength of his will , . . .
or what it was . --
Bacon .
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5 .
Used adverbially ,
in part ;
partly ;
somewhat ; --
with a following preposition ,
especially ,
with ,
and commonly with repetition .
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What for lust [
pleasure ]
and what for lore .
--
Chaucer .
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Thus ,
what with the war ,
what with the sweat ,
what with the gallows ,
and what with poverty ,
I am custom shrunk . --
Shak .
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The year before he had so used the matter that what by force ,
what by policy ,
he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles . --
Knolles .
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Note :
In such phrases as I tell you what ,
what anticipates the following statement ,
being elliptical for what I think ,
what it is ,
how it is ,
etc . "
I tell thee what ,
corporal Bardolph ,
I could tear her ." --
Shak .
Here what relates to the last clause , "
I could tear her ;"
this is what I tell you .
What not is often used at the close of an enumeration of several particulars or articles ,
it being an abbreviated clause ,
the verb of which ,
being either the same as that of the principal clause or a general word ,
as be ,
say ,
mention ,
enumerate ,
etc .,
is omitted . "
Men hunt ,
hawk ,
and what not ." --
Becon . "
Some dead puppy ,
or log ,
or what not ." --
C .
Kingsley . "
Battles ,
tournaments ,
hunts ,
and what not ." --
De Quincey .
Hence ,
the words are often used in a general sense with the force of a substantive ,
equivalent to anything you please ,
a miscellany ,
a variety ,
etc .
From this arises the name whatnot ,
applied to an ['
e ]
tag [`
e ]
re ,
as being a piece of furniture intended for receiving miscellaneous articles of use or ornament .
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But what is used for but that ,
usually after a negative ,
and excludes everything contrary to the assertion in the following sentence . "
Her needle is not so absolutely perfect in tent and cross stitch but what my superintendence is advisable ." --
Sir W .
Scott .
"
Never fear but what our kite shall fly as high ." --
Ld .
Lytton .
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{
What ho !}
an exclamation of calling .
{
What if },
what will it matter if ;
what will happen or be the result if . "
What if it be a poison ?" --
Shak .
{
What of this ?} {
What of that ?} {
What of it ?}
etc .,
what follows from this ,
that ,
it ,
etc .,
often with the implication that it is of no consequence ;
so what ? "
All this is so ;
but what of this ,
my lord ?" --
Shak . "
The night is spent ,
why ,
what of that ?" --
Shak .
{
What though },
even granting that ;
allowing that ;
supposing it true that . "
What though the rose have prickles ,
yet '
t is plucked ." --
Shak .
{
What time },
or {
What time as },
when . [
Obs .
or Archaic ] "
What time I am afraid ,
I will trust in thee ." --
Ps .
lvi .
3 .
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What time the morn mysterious visions brings .
--
Pope .
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What \
What \,
n .
Something ;
thing ;
stuff . [
Obs .]
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And gave him for to feed ,
Such homely what as serves the simple clown . --
Spenser .
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What \
What \,
interrog .
adv .
Why ?
For what purpose ?
On what account ? [
Obs .]
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What should I tell the answer of the knight . --
Chaucer .
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But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates ?
What do I pick up so thriftily their scatterings and diminishings of the meaner subject ? --
Milton .
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