where

英 [we?] 美[w?r]

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復(fù)數(shù):?wheres;

where 哪里

來自PIE*kwo,印歐語疑問代詞根，詞源同who,where,why,how.

where: where: [OE] Where is an ancient Indo-European formation derived from the interrogative base *qwo- (source also of English what, who, etc). In Germanic (where its relatives include Dutch waar, Swedish var, Danish hvor, and the war- of German warum ‘why’) it has largely become limited in its application to ‘place’, but in other branches of the Indo-European language family it performs other interrogative functions: Latin cūr ‘why’, for instance, Welsh pyr ‘why’, and Sanskrit kárhi- ‘when’, beside Lithuanian kur ‘where’.
where (adv.): Old English hw?r, hwar "at what place," from Proto-Germanic adverb *hwar (cognates: Old Saxon hwar, Old Norse hvar, Old Frisian hwer, Middle Dutch waer, Old High German hwar, German wo, Gothic hvar "where"), equivalent to Latin cur, from PIE interrogative base *kwo- (see who). Where it's at attested from 1903.

1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.: 不管你生活在哪里，你有多少歲，總有新東西要學(xué)習(xí)，畢竟，生活總是充滿驚喜。

2. I have $100m hidden away where no one will ever find it.: 我把1億美元藏到了一個永遠沒人會找到的地方。