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.
雙語例句
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。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
2. I have $100m hidden away where no one will ever find it.
我把1億美元藏到了一個(gè)永遠(yuǎn)沒人會(huì)找到的地方。
來自柯林斯例句
3. It got to the point where he had to leave.
到了他不得不走的地步。
來自柯林斯例句
4. I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly.
我繞過一個(gè)林木茂盛的彎。
來自柯林斯例句
5. You have to know where to stand for a good viewpoint.