somewhere

英语

词源

源自some +‎ where。

发音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/, /ˈsʌm.ʍɛɹ/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈsʌm.wɛː/, /ˈsʌm.wɛə/, /ˈsʌm.ʍɛə/
• (蘇格蘭) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈsʌm.hweːɹ/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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• 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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• 斷字：some‧where

副词

somewhere (無比較級)

1. 在某个地方，在某处

   I must have left my glasses somewhere.

   我肯定把我的眼镜落在哪了。

   I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.

   我把糖果藏在了这个房间里的某个角落。

   I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.

   我记不得具体数字了，但是应该是在200到300之间。

   • 1957年 9月，M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt，「Railway Development in Manchester—1」，收錄於 Railway Magazine，620，源自Herapath's Journal頁：

     When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first，源自the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.

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2. 向某个地方，向某处

   He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.

   他打算去个比较暖和一点的地方度假。

   I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

   我得去吃个午饭。我们2点见行不行？

近义词

• someplace (美式)
• somewheres

衍生词汇

• it's five o'clock somewhere
• somewhere along the line
• somewhere else
• somewhereness
• somewhere over the rainbow

相关词汇

• anywhere
• everywhere
• nowhere
• somebody、someone
• something

名词

somewhere (複數 somewheres)

1. 某个地方，某处，哪里
   • 1986, Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life, page 100:

     We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere, and we are again going to go to a somewhere, and this will go on, and on, and on.

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   • 2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283:

     A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.

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   • 2012, Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty, page 6:

     […] and it transports the person to a somewhere, a somewhere that the music dictates.

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   • 2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

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2. (非正式，不常見) 有关系的人，有门路的人，不一般的人

   反義詞：anywhere, cosmopolite