"how do you do" meaning in 英語

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Noun

Audio: En-au-how do you do.ogg Forms: how do you dos [plural]
  1. 困難或尷尬的局面。 Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: zh-how_do_you_do-en-noun-3eJoNoqF Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英國英語, 英語委婉詞, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do

Phrase

Audio: En-au-how do you do.ogg
  1. 介紹給某人時使用的問候語。此場景下也可說pleased to meet you和nice to meet you(有時在熟人之間用作反問,視地區而定)。 Tags: formal
    Sense id: zh-how_do_you_do-en-phrase-K-PzcSrh Categories (other): 英語正式用語
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do Related terms: how are you doing, howdy

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
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      "source": "w"
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        {
          "ref": "1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:",
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        }
      ],
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          "ref": "1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:",
          "text": "Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?"
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          "ref": "2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press ISBN 9781582435763, page 78",
          "text": "On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 9780545388467, page 115",
          "text": "\"Vienna!\" Mr. B. went on. \"This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?\""
        }
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        "困難或尷尬的局面。"
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        }
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press ISBN 9781582435763, page 78",
          "text": "On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 9780545388467, page 115",
          "text": "\"Vienna!\" Mr. B. went on. \"This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?\""
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