which: [OE] Etymologically, which means ‘what like, of what form or sort?’ The word was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the interrogative base *khwa-, *khwe- (source of English what, who, etc) and *līka- ‘body, form’ (source of English like and also incorporated into English each and such). Its Germanic relatives include German welch and Dutch welk ‘which’. => like
which (pron.)
Old English hwilc (West Saxon, Anglian), hwælc (Northumbrian) "which," short for hwi-lic "of what form," from Proto-Germanic *hwa-lik- (cognates: Old Saxon hwilik, Old Norse hvelikr, Swedish vilken, Old Frisian hwelik, Middle Dutch wilk, Dutch welk, Old High German hwelich, German welch, Gothic hvileiks "which"), from *hwi- "who" (see who) + *likan "body, form" (cognates: Old English lic "body;" see like (adj.)). In Middle English used as a relative pronoun where Modern English would use who, as still in the Lord's Prayer. Old English also had parallel forms hwelc and hwylc, which disappeared 15c.
雙語例句
1. He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.
他靠每周領取的作為病殘養老金的直接轉賬救濟支票過日子。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Politicians want a lap-dog press which will uncritically report their propaganda.
政客們想要的是不問是非、甘為他們搞宣傳的哈巴狗一樣的新聞媒體。
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3. We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time.
我們那時在同一所學院，當時隻招男生。
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4. We gained a rich supply of data which would normally be inaccessible.
我們得到了通常難以獲取的大量數據。
來自柯林斯例句
5. "Which one of these do you want?" — "I don't mind."