how so

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英語

詞源

縮約自「how is that so?」，且亦繼承中古英語 how-so、hou-so、hu se (「無論如何」)，等價於how +‎ so。對比西弗里斯蘭語 hoesa (「為什麼」)、荷蘭語 hoezo (「為什麼」)、德國低地德語 woso (「為什麼」)、德語 wieso (「為什麼」)、瑞典語 hurså (「為什麼」)。

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短語

how so?

1. 怎麼說？何出此言？為什麼這樣說？

   The city of Melbourne has much more culture than Sydney. ― How so?

   墨爾本的文化比悉尼的要豐富得多。―怎麼說？

2. (俗語) 為什麼？

   I'm feeling really depressed. ― How so?

   我感覺好難過。―怎麼了？

副詞

how so?

1. 以什麼樣的方式
   • 1809, The Literary Panorama, and National Register，第 1179 頁:

     But how so thys money was lent or gyded, at thys daye the cheste remayneth in the chamber of London, wythout money or pledges for the same.

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   • 1897, Ursula Newell Gestefeld, How We Master Our Fate，第 62 頁:

     But we have groaned over this experience, an O ! dear ! with every breath, and wished ourselves out of it, someway, somehow, no matter what way or how so we were rid of it.

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   • 2014, Gesta Romanorum, →ISBN，第 clxxxiii 頁:

     Of every wit somewhat he can Out-take that him lacketh rule, His own estate to guide and rule; How so it stood of his speaking, He was not wise in his doing;

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2. (俗語) 為什麼，為何
   • 1598, Robert Greene, The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth:

     Yet how so ere I love, I must be wife.

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   • 2013, Earlene Jernigan-Carter, When Life Just Happens: A Book of Short Stories, →ISBN，第 70 頁:

     That picture wasn't much to look at, being so old and all, but Mrs. Oaks made like it looked so nice; or, that's what she said as she stared at it, looking back and forth at the picture and me like it wasn't so. Only, she just didn't know how so it wasn't. It wasn't me at all.

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   • 2014, Eve Chilicas, Supernatural: Sci-Fi Poetry, →ISBN，第 24 頁:

     My reflection in you warbled, because you see only hints, of what I see to beacon of me. Who am I who is reflecting from you? How so do I identify my soul in you?

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3. （語氣增強詞）
   • 1771, The Book of Common Prayer:

     The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord ; and in thy salvation how so shall he rejoice!

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   • 2012, H. Bundy Shaw, Play On Words: Poems, Lyrics, and Other Writings of H. Bundy Shaw, →ISBN:

     How so we love thee! Even UNIVAC and IBM Could never count the way.

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   • 2014, Daniel C. Joneikies, Vampyre's Pyre, →ISBN，第 105 頁:

     I wished my voice would carry him through eternity, keeping us in a moment that nothing could part, oh, and how so I wanted to follow his lead, and how so to death I was determined not to concede, and how so, how so many wonderful things;

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參見

• how come
• how’s that

參考資料

• OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 how so 的釋義

異序詞

• who so, whoos, whoso, woosh