where

.哪，哪；哪；某勢置；

.…;

.，;

pron.哪裡;

where = 介詞+which

1.Where's the opportunity for Emerson?

艾默生電氣的機會在哪裡？

2.Where is my visual merchandising index?

我的視覺營銷參數在哪裡？

3.Where does Senator Obama stand?

奧巴馬的立場在那裡？

4.Where do you find time?

從哪兒找到時間呢？

5.Where does your blender go?

你的攪拌機放哪了？

【用法1】 where用作疑問副詞, 在(往、從)哪裡, 在什麼地方:

Where are you? 你在哪兒?

Where did you get the computer (form)? 你從哪兒弄到這台電腦的?

Where did you study medicine? 你從哪兒學的醫?

【用法2】where用作連接副詞, 引導下列從句：

Where bees are, there is honey. 〔狀語從句〕哪兒有蜜蜂哪兒就有蜜。

I’m going to do what I like and go where I like. 〔狀語從句〕我要做我想做的事，去我想去的地方。

I wonder where she lives. 〔賓語從句〕我想知道她住在哪裡。

It’s really no business of yours where I spend my summer. 〔主語從句〕

我真不知道她去哪兒了。

I really have no idea where she has gone.〔同位語從句〕我真不知道她去哪兒了。

The problem is where we should put the vase. 〔表語從句〕問題是我們把花瓶放在哪裡呢。

【用法3】where用作關係副詞，引導定語從句:

England is one of the few countries where (=in which) people drive on the left. 英國是少數沿左側開車的國家之一。

We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years. 我們後來搬到巴黎，在那裡住了六年。

【用法4】where用於引申意義:

Where will all this trouble lead? ( =What result will it have? ) 這件麻煩的事會惹出什麼結果?

The crisis has reached a point where the receiver will have to be called in.危機已經到達非把破產管理人叫來不可的地步。

Where others are weak, he is strong. 別人的弱點正是他的優勢。

Where the money is, there’s the power. 有錢就有勢。

Can you succeed where others failed? 別人干砸的事情，你能幹成嗎？

【用法5】where引導名詞性從句，相當於the place （point）where：

A bird had settled on a tree close to where I was standing. 鳥兒棲息在離我站的地方很近的一棵樹上。

That’s where the battle took place. 那兒就是那場戰役發生的地方。

The car is where you parked it. 車子還在你停放的地方。

That’s where we differ. 這就是我們的分歧所在。

That’s just where we basically disagree with him. 這就是我們同他的根本分歧點。

This is where we help each other. 我們就在這方面互相幫助。