④ What is the population(area)of China?中国的人口(面积)有多少(大)?
⑤ What money(cash) have you got? 你有多少钱(现金)?
⑥ What is your telephone (car、room)number?
你的电话(汽车﹑房间)号码是多少?
4.“What is …like?”的两种含义。
⑴ 表示“情况怎样”,多指天气或气候。例如:
① What is the weather like today?今天天气怎样?
② What is the climate like there?那里的气候怎样?
⑵ 表示“像什么样,什么模样,怎样的” 指人或事物。例如:
③ What is the camel like ?骆驼是什么样子的?
④ — What is your teacher like?— She is very kind and beautiful.
“你老师是怎样一个人?”——“她既善良又美丽。”
⑤ What will life be like in the future ? 未来的生活是什么样子呢?
注意:“What is…like?”通常用于对某人、某地和某物的实际情况提问,包括对其内在的品质或外在的特征(或持久的特征)提问。而“How is … like?”是就某人、某地和某物的外观询问对方的看法,可以用来询问变化的事物,如暂时的情况,情绪等,还常用来问候别人的健康。如:
⑥ How is your work these days?? 近来你的工作情况如何?
⑦ How is he? 他近况如何?? (他身体近来怎么样?)
比较:What does she look like?她是什么模样?(What… look like?只能指外表 )
5.“What do you think of…?”用于询问对方对……的看法或评价。例如:
① What do you think of the idea?你认为这个主意怎样?
② What did you think of that film?你对那场电影评价如何?
注意:“ What do you think of…?”是惯用搭配,不能改为“How do you think of…?”。但我们可以说:How do you feel about the idea(that film)?或者How do you like the idea(that film)?
6.what 用作复合关系代词时,既可指代人又可指代物。例如:
① China is no longer what it used to be? 中国已不是过去的中国。
② She is what you call a “bluestocking”。 她就是你说的“女才子”。
③ She is not what she was five years ago. 她不再是5年前的她了。
7. what从句可用作宾语补足语或状语。例如:
① We will make the factory twice what it is today. 我们将使工厂比现在规模增加一倍。(句中的twice what it is today是动词make的宾语the factory的补足语)
② Gravity is what makes you weigh what you weigh. 地心吸引力使人称得现有的重量(句中的第一个what到句末为表语从句;句末的what you weigh 是说明前面的动词weigh,系回答how much 的问题,作状语)
8.像how和why一样,what可以用作名词。例如:
①? Please explain to us how and why,since you know what. 既然你想出一个好办法,请给我们解释清楚解决这个问题的方法和理由。