how_do_you_do
英语
替代形式
- how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do (名词)
发音
音频 (澳洲)
短语
- (正式) 介绍给某人时使用的问候语。此场景下也可说pleased to meet you和nice to meet you(有时在熟人之间用作反问,视地区而定)。
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
- "How do you do?" began Pollyanna politely. "I'm from Miss Polly Harrington, and I'd like to see Mrs. Snow, please."
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
用法说明
此短语在过去有屈折,如变形为:I asked him how he did.
相关词汇
- how are you doing(较为不正式)
- howdy(非正式)
名词
how do you do(复数 how do you dos)
- (英国, 委婉) 困难或尴尬的局面。
- 1993,Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:
- Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press ISBN 9781582435763, page 78
- On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.
- 2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 9780545388467, page 115
- "Vienna!" Mr. B. went on. "This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?"