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how

/hou/US // haʊ //UK // (haʊ) //

如何,怎样,怎么,怎

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
    • : to what extent, degree, etc.?: How damaged is the car?
    • : in what state or condition?: How are you?
    • : for what reason; why?: How can you talk such nonsense?
    • : to what effect; with what meaning?: How is one to interpret his action?
    • : what?: How do you mean? If they don't have vanilla, how about chocolate?
    • : : How seldom I go there!
    • : by what title or name?: How does one address the president?
    • : at what price: How are the new cars going, cheaper than last year's models?
    • : by what amount or in what measure or quantity?: How do you sell these tomatoes?
    • : in what form or shape?: How does the demon appear in the first act of the opera? How does the medication come?
conj.连词 conjunction
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    • : the manner or way in which: He couldn't figure out how to solve the problem.
    • : about the manner, condition, or way in which: I don't care how you leave your desk when you go. Be careful how you act.
    • : in whatever manner or way; however: You can travel how you please.
    • : Informal. that: He told us how he was honest and could be trusted.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a question concerning the way or manner in which something is done, achieved, etc.: a child's unending whys and hows.
    • : a way or manner of doing something: to consider all the hows and wherefores.
    • : a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter H.

Phrases

  • how about
  • how about that?
  • how are you?
  • how come?
  • how does that grab you?
  • how do you do?
  • how goes it
  • howling success
  • how so?
  • how the land lies
  • how the wind blows
  • and how

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp.

  • In March, popular beauty site Into the Gloss even published a how-to on getting blue-tinted hair.

  • The “Operation Trojan Horse” letter was a how-to guide for Islamic fundamentalists wanting to take over local schools.

  • Once again, Apple has all the know-how to enter, and dominate, this market without making an acquisition.

  • An email allegedly written by David Newman, an employee of the Cheyenne VA, reads like a how-to manual for cooking the books.

  • Consequently, while the direction of the what-not-how-now line is definitely fixed, their actual positions remain unestablished.

  • I'm plumb tired, an' there ain't no use tryin' to be respectable, no-how.

  • How lovers rashGot mittens at the spelling school!How many a mute, inglorious fool Wrote rhymes and sighed and died—mustache!

  • I guess I didn't think much what I was a-doin' of, no-how. '

  • But in that other heart how was it?how with the sweet saint that was talking to herself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs?