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 when [hwen]   添加此单词到默认生词本
conj. 当...的时候

ad. 何时, 什么时候

pron. 什么时侯

n. 时间





    When \When\, adv. [OE. when, whan, whenne, whanne, AS.
    hw[ae]nne, hwanne, hwonne; akin to OS. hwan, OD. wan, OHG.
    wanne, G. wann when, wenn if, when, Goth. hwan when, and to
    E. who. ????. See {Who}.]
    1. At what time; -- used interrogatively.

    When shall these things be? --Matt. xxiv.
    3.

    Note: See the Note under {What}, pron., 1.

    2. At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or
    just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.

    Kings may
    Take their advantage when and how they list.
    --Daniel.

    Book lore ne'er served, when trial came,
    Nor gifts, when faith was dead. --J. H.
    Newman.

    3. While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a
    conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or
    clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative
    relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to
    turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest
    man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the
    grounds.

    4. Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.

    I was adopted heir by his consent;
    Since when, his oath is broke. --Shak.

    Note: When was formerly used as an exclamation of surprise or
    impatience, like what!

    Come hither; mend my ruff:
    Here, when! thou art such a tedious lady! --J.
    Webster.

    {When as}, {When that}, at the time that; when. [Obs.]

    When as sacred light began to dawn. --Milton.

    When that mine eye is famished for a look. --Shak.

    1. Can we never see eye-to-eye until all 120 million Japanese become Christians?" My second encounter occurred in the late 1980s, when I overheard a comment as I passed by a meeting room in the New York head office of a major financial organization.
    2. Frank lied about how he met Gobie and he lied when he wrote that, as far as he knew, Gobie was obeying the law.
    3. A vaccine would be proven, he said, only when it is shown to give protection against the effects of these substances also.
    4. Meanwhile, the circus animals are stuck in Newburgh, N.Y. The company that was transporting the animals took them there, to its headquarters, when the tour broke off after performances in just two cities.
    5. The company's stock tumbled this summer when the company reported lower-than-expected earnings.
    6. Guerrillas armed with assault rifles killed a West German priest when he tried to rescue another missionary who was being attacked with a hatchet, a church spokesman said Wednesday.
    7. Five minutes later Dunga and Romario combined to set Bebeto through but his shot was blocked. The closest Italian squeak came after 24 minutes when Branco practised his speciality - the bent free-kick - from 25 yards out.
    8. The dispatch did not say when the incident occurred.
    9. He declined to predict when Digital would produce a workstation based on that product.
    10. The first two tales unfold from the point of view of small boys learning the oldest lesson in the book, that humans pay a price when their desire or greed interrupts nature's course.
    11. According to the television report, the IRA members were in possession of false identity papers and detonators when they were picked up on July 14.
    12. In the first 26 weeks of 1990, nearly five times more cases were diagnosed in Washington than during all of 1989, when 55 measles cases were reported, state health officials said.
    13. Pozsgay shot up in popular esteem last January when he became the first public leader to proclaim that the 1956 revolt was a popular uprising and not a counterrevolution, as it had officially been termed for more than 32 years.
    14. As a consequence, the blue chips extended a decline which had begun in the closing minutes of the previous session, when investors had sensed the bad news to come. However, the downturn paled when compared with the rout in bonds.
    15. As a consequence, the blue chips extended a decline which had begun in the closing minutes of the previous session, when investors had sensed the bad news to come. However, the downturn paled when compared with the rout in bonds.
    16. Mazda has raised the prices on its cars sold in the U.S. nine times since late 1985, when the value of the Japanese yen began climbing against the dollar.
    17. The agency reported the strike committee "sharpened discipline" when some of the 130 miners began to leave the occupation strike at the Thorez mine.
    18. In the only other U.S. death linked to the guerrilla fight, a Texas woman was among seven passengers killed and 28 wounded when guerrillas bombed a tourist train heading for the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in June 1986.
    19. As a consequence, the share prices of prime rate funds don't vary when interest rates change.
    20. But one problem that hurt their analysis when they compared the 1920s with the 1980s: They equated 1987 with 1928 instead of 1929.
    21. 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.
    22. General Cinema, which invested only $300 million in Carter Hawley when it rode in as an ally two years ago, will wind up with control of the specialty outlets while it escapes from the lower-profit department store game.
    23. The nation's church leaders met 30 years ago in an attempt to forge a united front to challenge apartheid, but the agreement collapsed when the Dutch Reformed Church rejected it.
    24. Ms. Bhutto, 35, was pregnant with her first child last year when Pakistan's military leader, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, announced elections.
    25. Talk of the missing gold first surfaced when some former employees started to complain about unexplained amounts on their W-2 tax forms.
    26. The premier said that only he can prevent a return to the turbulence of the 1970s, when terrorism and an economic crisis paved the way for a 1980 military takeover.
    27. Divers pulled seven bodies from a murky, rain-swollen river Sunday where at least that many people died when a 50-year-old U.S. highway bridge collapsed.
    28. "It's periods like this when I think the thing can break out."
    29. Later, when reporters asked for comment, he replied: "That's interesting, that's what I think about it." The vice president's remark came as he traveled aboard Air Force Two to Cincinnati for the Major League All-Star Game Tuesday night.
    30. 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.
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