where的意思|where的解释-里氏词典

where [hwєә]

ad. 在哪里

pron. 哪里

n. 地点

Wher \Wher\, Where \Where\, pron. & conj. [See {Whether}.]
Whether. [Sometimes written {whe'r}.] [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.

Men must enquire (this is mine assent),
Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. --Chaucer.

Where \Where\, adv. [OE. wher, whar, AS. hw?r; akin to D. waar,
OS. hw?r, OHG. hw[=a]r, w[=a]r, w[=a], G. wo, Icel. and Sw.
hvar, Dan. hvor, Goth. hwar, and E. who; cf. Skr. karhi when.
[root]182. See {Who}, and cf. {There}.]
1. At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position,
or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.

God called unto Adam, . . . Where art thou? --Gen.
iii. 9.

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

2. At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the
case or instance in which; -- used relatively.

She visited that place where first she was so happy.
--Sir P.
Sidney.

Where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherished by her childlike duty.
--Shak.

Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
--Shak.

But where he rode one mile, the dwarf ran four.
--Sir W.
Scott.

3. To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or
issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively;
as, where are you going?

But where does this tend? --Goldsmith.

Lodged in sunny cleft,
Where the gold breezes come not. --Bryant.

Note: Where is often used pronominally with or without a
preposition, in elliptical sentences for a place in
which, the place in which, or what place.

The star . . . stood over where the young child
was. --Matt. ii. 9.

The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
--Matt. viii.
20.

Within about twenty paces of where we were.
--Goldsmith.

Where did the minstrels come from? --Dickens.

Note: Where is much used in composition with preposition, and
then is equivalent to a pronoun. Cf. {Whereat},
{Whereby}, {Wherefore}, {Wherein}, etc.

{Where away} (Naut.), in what direction; as, where away is
the land?

Syn: See {Whither}.

Where \Where\, conj.
Whereas.

And flight and die is death destroying death;
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath. --Shak.

Where \Where\, n.
Place; situation. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Finding the nymph asleep in secret where. --Spenser.

Some funds are allowed to take bull and bear positions in a range of financial instruments, and even in agricultural commodities, where there is a perceived opportunity for profit.
This is where McIlveen also makes sure of legality, environmental considerations and the lender's potential liabilities. 'We like lending to things that are already under way,' he says.
Shortly after the deposit was made, the businessman transferred the money out of Credit Suisse and invested it in a certificate of deposit at a second Swiss bank, where it has accumulated an estimated $253,000 in interest, Mr. Belnick said.
President Virgilio Barco revived Colombia's extradition treaty with the United States, where the top cocaine lords are wanted on drug charges.
Environmental Protection Commissioner Leslie Carothers proposed allowing the state to override local zoning and locate solid waste disposal facilities where it wants.
Those disruptions, in turn, could affect the efficiency of the military operations in Saudi Arabia, where most of the Allied forces are based.
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.
The events in Poland are being viewed nervously in Prague, where government officials expect demonstrations Monday to commemorate the Soviet invasion in 1968.
The group has a strong position in Brazil, but so far no presence in China, where it is likely to go for joint ventures. Mr Herbert said: 'We've had the time and access for extensive research and due diligence.
Many bird species find golf courses and sod farms good feeding grounds, especially in urban areas where these large expanses of green are easy to spot from the air.
The second night of violence also began at an apartment complex, where police were confronted by an estimated 1,000 people.
The new transport and construction ministers meet often to try to co-ordinate policy in areas like urban development and infrastructure spending, where their departments were sometimes at loggerheads. This co-operation is the exception at the moment.
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.
It did not give the cause of death or say where the death occurred.
One day American tourists will arrive at Heathrow Airport and find that English taxi drivers no longer speak English, or know where to find back streets and the English bed and breakfast will call itself a motel.
It intends to collect more, for the satellite mapping of the forest zone and for conservation programs where the remaining forest is thickest.
They will continue to attack where another dog will just bite and run away," Burns said.
The sharpest impact could come in Britain, where women get full retirement benefits at age 60 while men must wait until 65. Pension plans in Belgium, Greece and Portugal also may have to be rewritten.
Fog brings fear for some residents of this central Florida mining town, where state officials have measured nine releases of dangerous ammonia or sulfur oxides from nearby chemical plants since 1987.
The Corporation of London, which administers London City, gave the museum $176,000 to dig on the site next to the medieval Guildhall, where the corporation meets.
But in the world of economic policy, a lot depends on how simple ideas are fitted together and where the stress is placed.
The French battleship Jean D'Arc will sail to the United States and Puerto Rico in 1989, calling in at the ports of Pearl Harbor, San Francisco, New Orleans and Puerto Rico where the ship will be open to the public.
"When I saw where my aunt lived _ she had one little room and the use of a kitchen _ I nearly died," she said.
The plane landed near Managua to refuel earlier in the day, where the residents had fought with police, Munoz said.
But that is where optimism about the new law within Egypt's nascent financial services industry largely ends. 'In comparison to what we had, it's a huge leap forward,' says Mr Ahmed Foda, managing director of Investments & Securities Group in Cairo.
An odd invitation to take Marianne Moore to the circus, for instance, recalls Efforts of Affection, where the two poets feed performing elephants brown bread.
"We'll never deny where we've come from," says Vales.
Carver was organized as a mutual savings bank in 1948 to make home mortgage loans, and that's where most of its assets remain.
One solution seen by many sponsors such as Valvoline is to spend more money at small local tracks where racing is still valued more for sport than for big business.
"One of our tests is to keep the audience where they are, because there is a tendency for an audience to join in," said Jeremy Alliger, head of an avant-garde performance group called The Dance Umbrella, which is presenting the Boston shows.

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