how do you do

英語

替代形式

• how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do (名詞)

發音

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短語

how do you do?

1. (正式) 介紹給某人時使用的問候語。此場景下也可說pleased to meet you和nice to meet you（有時在熟人之間用作反問，視地區而定）。
   • 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."

用法説明

此短語在過去有屈折，如變形為：I asked him how he did.

相關詞彙

• how are you doing（較為不正式）
• howdy（非正式）

名詞

how do you do (複數 how do you dos)

1. (英國，委婉) 困難或尷尬的局面。
   • 1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:

     Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 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?"