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why
时间: 2024-04-30 13:08:16
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英 [waɪ]

adv.(用于直接疑问句,询问原因)为什么,为何;(用于间接疑问句,询问原因)为什么,为何;

pronoun:relative.…的原因

interj.(用于句首表示惊讶、不同意、气愤等)哎呀,哟,嗨

双语例句
  • Why couldn't he listen to her?

    为什么他不能听她的话?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why have you marked this wrong?

    你为什么批这道题为错?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why don't you ask his advice?

    你为什么不征询他的意见?

    《牛津词典》
  • 'Why now?' she wondered hazily.

    “为什么是现在?”她困惑地思忖。

    《牛津词典》
  • Why do people paint pictures?

    为什么人们要画画?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why wasn't Weber a nihilist?

    为什么韦伯不是个虚无主义者呢?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • 'Why ever not?' she queried.

    “为什么不呢?”她问道。

    《牛津词典》
  • Why are you so chicken, Gregory?

    你为什么这么胆小,格雷戈里?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • 'But why?' he interpolated.

    “但为什么?”他插嘴问。

    《牛津词典》
  • Explain why you didn't telephone.

    解释一下你为什么不打电话。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why can't they see reason ?

    他们为什么不明事理?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why were you holding everyone up?

    你为什么要耽搁大家?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why didn't you follow my advice ?

    你为什么不听我的劝告?

    《牛津词典》
  • That's why I left so early.

    这就是我早早离去的原因。

    《牛津词典》
  • Why hasn't he brought the whiskey?

    为什么他还没把威士忌酒带来?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why should I disbelieve her story?

    我为什么要怀疑她的说法呢?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why don't you give him up?

    你为什么不与他一刀两断呢?

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm baffled why she hasn't called.

    我不明白她为什么没打电话。

    《牛津词典》
  • 'I wonder why?' she mused.

    “这是为什么呢?”她若有所思地问自己。

    《牛津词典》
  • Why did she take him back?

    她为什么又让他回家呢?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why don't we go together?

    我们为什么不一起去呢?

    《牛津词典》
  • 'But why...?' Her voice tailed away.

    “但是为什么…?”她的声音细了下去。

    《牛津词典》
  • Why did you wave at him?

    你为什么向他招手?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why must she interrupt?

    她为什么偏要打断呢?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why should I apologize?

    我为什么要道歉?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why couldn't she have said something?

    为什么她不能说点什么呢?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why ever did you agree?

    你究竟为什么要同意?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why didn't he stop me?

    为什么他没有阻止我?

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Why did he hoot at me?

    他为什么对着我按喇叭?

    《牛津词典》
  • Why did he honk at me?

    他为什么对我按喇叭?

    《牛津词典》
短语搭配
  • no why

    不为什么

近义词
adv. 为什么
考纲分布

6年出现 1251

重要程度
  • 54%

    adv (疑问副词)为什么

  • 46%

    adv (关系副词)为什么

考纲释义
  • adv. (疑问副词)为什么

    真题例句:

    • Why did the woman change her seat?

      这位女士为什么要换座位?

      [2021年 包头市卷 听力]
    • Why is it important to give feedback in time according to Paragraph 2?

      为什么根据第2段及时给予反馈很重要?

      [2021年 台州市卷 阅读理解]
    • Why are smart machines likely to increase our biases?

      为什么智能机器可能会增加我们的偏见?

      [2019年 北京市 阅读理解]
  • adv. (关系副词)为什么

    真题例句:

    • Do you know the reason why we feel tired in the middle of a class?

      你知道我们在课上感到累的原因吗?

      [2021年 陕西省卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • why对原因进行提问,回答时通常用because引导。如:―Why do you like math? 你为什么喜欢数学?―Because I think it’s very interesting. 因为我觉得它很有趣。

  • why可以引导宾语从句或表语从句。如:I didn’t know why he chose to join the music club. 我不知道他为什么选择加入音乐俱乐部。Her bike was broken. That’s why she was late for class. 她的自行车坏了,那就是她上课迟到的原因。

  • why还可以作关系副词,引导定语从句,通常和the reason搭配。如:He told me the reason why he loved swimming. 他告诉了我他喜欢游泳的原因。

考纲分布

12年出现 177

重要程度
  • 43%

    adv 为什么

  • 27%

    adv 为什么(作关系副词引导定语从句)

  • 25%

    adv 作疑问副词或连接副词

  • 5%

    int 哎呀

考纲释义
  • adv. 为什么

    真题例句:

    • Rome can be pricey for travelers, which is why many choose to stay in a hostel.

      对于游客来说,罗马的物价很高,这就是为什么许多人选择住在旅社。

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 阅读理解]
    • Why did Sarah make the phone call?

      莎拉为什么打电话?

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 听力]
    • I now understand why my brother favours the quiet.

      我现在明白为什么我哥哥喜欢安静了。

      [2021年 天津卷 完形填空]
  • adv. 为什么(作关系副词引导定语从句)

    真题例句:

    • As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.

      当我收拾残局时,我想知道为什么几个月来我们打破了这么多东西。

      [2021年 天津卷 阅读理解]
    • To explain why they are useful.

      解释它们为什么有用。

      [2021年 全国乙卷 阅读理解]
    • At this point, it is not clear why dogs seem to be equipped with the ability to recognize different facial expressions in humans.

      目前尚不清楚为什么狗似乎具备识别人类不同面部表情的能力。

      [2021年 浙江卷 阅读理解]
  • adv. 作疑问副词或连接副词

  • int. 哎呀

用法讲解
  • why not后接动词原形,用来提出建议:Why not(Why don't you)give her some flowers? 为什么不给她一些鲜花呢?

  • why表示原因,修饰reason,有时可以用that来修饰。在定语从句中,有时可以省略why或that. 如:Can you tell us the reason why/that you were absent yesterday? 你能告诉我们昨天你为什么没来吗?That's one of the reasons I went back to work in our native country. 那就是我回祖国工作的原因之一。(句中省略了why或that,注意不能用for which代替关系副词why)。

真题例句
  • According to the passage, why did snowmen become a phenomenon in the middle ages?

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设
  • And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文
  • And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • And why do cats give dead birds to their owners?

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • As a child, Adeline couldn't understand why the medal was so significant.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文
  • As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.

    2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Berger explains in his new book, \contagious: why things catch on.\

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • But what I still can't figure out is why I never got tired, never felt better in my life.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文
  • Come on, you just sit around all day! why don't you do something?

    2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
  • Explain why she was interested in the computer.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
  • Explain why the number of certain species has declined.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文
  • However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

    2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • I thought, \why don't they just try rolling the things\ a square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

    2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to float on the sea?

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 单项填空 原文
  • If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • In Lucy Grant's opinion, why does downsgifting require a lot of thoughts and planning?

    2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 题设
  • In order to make a change, you need to decide why it's important.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • It hit me then: why, as a child, helping dad clean his comb was such a pleasure?

    2015年高考英语陕西卷 完形填空 原文
  • It won an Oscar in 2006, and if you watch it, you'll understand why.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Let's begin with the question of why people volunteer.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Not everyone acts the same in response to events, and that is why what triggers one person may or may not trigger another.

    2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Other road users, including horse riders, manage to obey the rules so why not cyclists?

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文
  • She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • Since his regular job was boring, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文
  • That can be annoying—that's why some people feel sick.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • That is why I help brighten people's days.

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文
  • That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or services provides a real joy.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • That was why he had bought the papers with all his money.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文
  • That's why exercise is considered so vital that National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA puts it right on the workday schedule.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • That's why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • That's why TV ears has earned the trust and confidence of audiologists听觉学家 nationwide as well as world-famous doctors.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • The author mentions the functions of science at the beginning of the passage to explain why many writers use science in their works.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 题设
  • The exhibition tells us why we should do something to stop air pollution.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 单项填空 原文
  • The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, thing about why you want to gossip and what effects your \juicy story\ might have.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文
  • The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • The reason why someone is triggered by something and others are not is often due to one's personal history and psychological traits.

    2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • There are several reasons why school uniforms are good idea.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文
  • This is why there is a saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文
  • This is why you're saving my life.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • This is why, in part at least, the US national climate assessment says that: \There is no ‘one-size fits all' adaptation.\

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Travel through 100 of the most unbelievable years in world history and learn why being a Roman emperor wasn't always as good as it sounds.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
考纲分布

18年出现 64

重要程度
  • 56%

    adv 为什么

  • 41%

    excl 哟; 嗨

  • 3%

    n 原因; 理由

考纲释义
  • adv. 为什么

    英文释义:

    for what reason or purpose

    真题例句:

    • This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.

      这就是为什么研究人员通常认为所谓的道德内疚,只要适度,就是一件好事。

      [2019年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • Learning why they disagree with us and learning to talk and work together with them.

      了解他们不赞同我们的原因,并学会与他们交流和合作。

      [2019年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now.

      为什么这种相似性存在于嗅觉基因中,目前还很难解释。

      [2015年 英语一 完型填空]
  • excl. 哟; 嗨

    英文释义:

    used to express surprise, lack of patience, etc.

  • n. 原因; 理由

    英文释义:

    a reason or explanation

必考短语
用法讲解
  • why可用作疑问副词,引导特殊疑问句或省略的特殊疑问句,表示疑问,意思是“为什么”; 后面跟不带to的动词不定式,意思是“为什么要…”,表示某一动作是不必要的或无意义的。例:Why spend such a lot of money?为什么要花这么多钱呢?

  • why可用作关系副词,意思是“为什么;为了什么的缘故、理由或目的”。可引导定语从句,可以单独用在reason的后面作为修饰语。例:That is the reason why we must go now.这就是我们现在必须走的理由

真题例句
  • On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

    出自-2012年考研翻译原文
  • The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • Also unclear is why Microsoft has gone it alone.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

    出自-2014年考研翻译原文
  • The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

    出自-2014年考研阅读原文
  • Why ruin rural ones?.

    出自-2016年考研阅读原文
  • There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.Robert F.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • The crash of Egypt Air Flight 804,which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea ,provides another tragic reminder of why.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • Also unclear is why microsoft has gone it alone.

    2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

    2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students' educational experiences, many first-generation students lack insight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.

    2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

    2016年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country's economic prospects?

    2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Learning why they disagree with us and learning to talk and work together with them.

    2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ
  • One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that \liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools\.

    2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Perhaps this is why many worry about the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.

    2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • Studying this could help understand why human evolution picked pace in the last 30, 000 years, with social environment being a major contributory factor.

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  • The \mommy wars\ of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can't have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.

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  • The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years-so why shouldn't we?

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  • Then, why do we trust at all?

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  • There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.

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  • This is why people who work outside the home have better health.

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  • This kind of thinking is why so many people try to avoid arguments, especially about politics and religion.

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  • When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.

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  • Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now.

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