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ad. 如何, 怎样, 多少, 多么

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    How \How\, adv. [OE. how, hou, hu, hwu, AS. h?, from the same
    root as hw[=a], hw[ae]t, who, what, pron. interrog.; akin to
    OS. hw[=o]w, D. hoe, cf. G. wie how, Goth. hw[=e] wherewith,
    hwaiwa how. [root]182. See {Who}, and cf. {Why}.]
    1. In what manner or way; by what means or process.

    How can a man be born when he is old? --John iii. 4.

    2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what
    proportion; by what measure or quality.

    O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the
    day. --Ps. cxix.
    97.

    By how much they would diminish the present extent
    of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility,
    and fountains, and rivers of the earth. --Bentley.

    3. For what reason; from what cause.

    How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale? --Shak.

    4. In what state, condition, or plight.

    How, and with what reproach, shall I return?
    --Dryden.

    5. By what name, designation, or title.

    How art thou called? --Shak.

    6. At what price; how dear. [Obs.]

    How a score of ewes now? --Shak.

    Note: How is used in each sense, interrogatively,
    interjectionally, and relatively; it is also often
    employed to emphasize an interrogation or exclamation.
    ``How are the mighty fallen!'' --2 Sam. i. 27.
    Sometimes, also, it is used as a noun; -- as, the how,
    the when, the wherefore. --Shelley.

    Let me beg you -- don't say ``How?'' for
    ``What?'' --Holmes.

    1. Frank lied about how he met Gobie and he lied when he wrote that, as far as he knew, Gobie was obeying the law.
    2. "We're still working on how to implement what the president said," Charles Kolb, deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said in an interview Monday.
    3. Meanwhile, Mr. Walsh's staff is evaluating how it will gather information it needs from President Reagan.
    4. Saudi Arabia's readiness to compromise and the involvement of several Gulf heads of state underlined how seriously Opec takes the threat to its position.
    5. When asked how today's scholars might approach an altered version, Mr. Greetham described a form of advanced literary analysis known as Reception Theory, in which "authorial intention has no particular precedence.
    6. In one commercial, it focuses on Mazda's "telemetry" center, where scientists monitor a driver's pulse rate and heartbeat, among other vital signs, to ascertain how driving a Mazda feels.
    7. The expected cut in car tax offered an unmissable opportunity to transfer the tax burden to petrol, so cutting the cost of buying cars but making people think more about how they used them. Instead, the policy has gone into reverse.
    8. Rosier was indicted 11 months after his wife's death when he said in a television interview that he "administered something to terminate her life" and wrote a book about how she died.
    9. Like the raucous chair-throwing sessions and fights that break out in the Yuan, Hsu's unusual campaign for the December vote indicates how much the island has changed since martial law.
    10. George Mitchell showed the style he brings to the post of Senate majority leader when he was asked recently how the Democratic Congress would respond to George Bush's call for a cut in the capital gains tax.
    11. Roemer met all day Sunday with his closest advisers on how to cut the budget.
    12. The company didn't say how much extra production there would be but dealers estimated that it would amount to an additional 150,000 ounces, which would bring the company's annual output to 1.4 million ounces.
    13. Fascinating, he thought _ the orchestration, the instrumentation, how the French horns used high octave violin phrases.
    14. Does laying out 20 grand to hear Dan Marino explain how he aspires to win a Super Bowl really inspire a management team, metaphorically speaking, to seek the corporate Super Bowl?
    15. I don't think you have any instance as flagrant as this one." Just how flagrant is too flagrant isn't clear under Florida law: A certain degree of "pre-petition planning," as bankruptcy lawyers like to call it, is acceptable.
    16. He knows how to play his hand and hold back his ace.
    17. Voters appear to have little faith left in the oft-discussed Middle East "peace process," so neither they nor journalists are pressing candidates to explain how they would get Israelis and Palestinians into negotiations.
    18. He declined to speculate on how long Eastern could stay alive, but said "the economics are clear."
    19. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., has asked the FAA to determine how many machines would be needed for critical airports, how much they will cost and who ought to pay for them.
    20. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., has asked the FAA to determine how many machines would be needed for critical airports, how much they will cost and who ought to pay for them.
    21. But in the world of economic policy, a lot depends on how simple ideas are fitted together and where the stress is placed.
    22. Other key issues, he says, will include details of how the single market will work, environmental, consumer and social issues and the EEC's relationship with the rest of the world.
    23. Previn, who became music director in 1986, clashed with Fleischmann over guest conductors on recordings, how Previn edited musical works _ even cutbacks on office supplies and coffee.
    24. The picture is especially vague about whether or how Ms. Hearst was brainwashed.
    25. "You can't communicate with your friends and tell them how you feel inside a box," Munson said.
    26. "When I saw him for the first time, I just couldn't believe how big he was," Nugent, an avid hunter, said recently.
    27. As you listen to the self-righteous sermonising of the religious and the 'purity league' members, it serves as a forceful reminder of how many would still like to drag us back into that cesspit of ignorance today.
    28. It explains which trusts qualify for a Pep, describes their investment objectives, and gives performance tables and details of how self-select Peps work.
    29. It was not clear how many organs were found.
    30. Get down to how to do this.
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