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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- how [hau]
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adverb
(in questions) 怎样
- how did you do it?
- 你是怎么做的？
- how was the film?
- 电影怎么样？
- how are you?
- 你好吗？
- how can you be so unkind?
- 你怎么能如此刻薄呢？
- "how do you do?" - "how do you do?"
- “你好！” “你好！”
- how long have you lived here?
- 你在这儿住了多久了？
- how much milk/many people?
- 有多少奶/人？
- how old are you?
- 你多大了？
- how tall is he?
- 他有多高？
- how well do you know her?
- 你对她了解有多少？
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2.
adverb
how lovely/awful! (in exclamations) 太可爱/糟了！
- 3. adverb how about a cup of tea/a walk {etc}? (in suggestions) 来杯茶/去散步{等}好吗？
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4.
adverb
how about you? (avoiding repetition) 你呢？
- 5. conjunction 怎么
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1.
adverb
(in questions) 怎样
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- how [haυ]
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adv
in what way? in what manner? by what means?: how did it happen? Also used in indirect questions: tell me how he did it
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adv
[not standard]
as how that
- he told me as how the shop was closed
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adv
to what extent?
- how tall is he?
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adv
how good? how well? what
like? - how did she sing?
- how was the holiday?
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adv
in whatever way
- do it how you wish
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adv
used in exclamations to emphasize extent
- how happy I was!
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n
the way a thing is done
- the how of it
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n
[Etymology]
Old English hu; related to Old Frisian h
u , Old High German hweo
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1.
adv
in what way? in what manner? by what means?: how did it happen? Also used in indirect questions: tell me how he did it
- how [haυ]
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sentence substitute
a greeting supposed to be or have been used by American Indians and often used humorously
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sentence substitute
[Etymology]
C19: of Siouan origin; related to Dakota háo
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1.
sentence substitute
a greeting supposed to be or have been used by American Indians and often used humorously
Examples
- "how do you do?" - "how do you do?"
- “你好” “你好” → do
- "how do you do?" - "how do you do?"
- “你好！” “你好！” → how
- How's your new book coming (along)?
- 你的新书编写进展如何? → come
- How can I ever repay you?
- 我到底怎样报答你呢? → ever
- How is the evening going?
- 那一晚过得怎样? → go
- How is it that you don't know?
- 你怎么不知道? → how
- a how-to book
- 基础知识书，入门书 → how-to
- to really know how to live
- 真正懂得如何去享受生活 → live
- how wise of her
- 她是多么聪明 → of
- How many others are there?
- 其他还有多少人? → other
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