who
who
pronoun
as who should say
pronoun
- [interrogative pronoun]what or which person or people
谁，什么人
who is that woman?.
那女人是谁？。
I wonder who that letter was from.
我想知道信是谁写来的。 - [relative pronoun]used to introduce a clause giving further information about a person or people previously mentioned
…的人（用于引导定语从句）
Joan Fontaine plays the mouse who married the playboy.
琼•方丹扮演那个嫁给花花公子的腼腆女子。
■(archaic)the person that; whoever
(古)无论是谁，不论哪个人
who holds the sea, perforce doth hold the land.
谁拥有该海域，谁就真正拥有这片土地。
as who should say
- (archaic)as if to say
(古)可谓，似乎在说
he meekly bowed to him, as who should say ‘Proceed’.
他温顺地向他鞠躬，似乎在说“继续”。
- what right or authority do I (or you, he, etc.) have to do something
我（你或他等）有何权做某事
who am I to object?.
我有什么权力反对？。
- 见 go
- Old English hwā, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wie and German wer
- 1 A continuing debate in English usage is the question of when to use who and when to use whom. According to formal grammar, who forms the subjective case and so should be used in subject position in a sentence, as in who decided this? The form whom, on the other hand, forms the objective case and so should be used in object position in a sentence, as in whom do you think we should support?; to whom do you wish to speak? Although there are some speakers who still use who and whom according to the rules of formal grammar as stated here, there are many more who rarely use whom at all; its use has retreated steadily and is now largely restricted to formal contexts. The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom (and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence): who do you wish to speak to?; who do you think we should support? Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English. In the British National Corpus, for example,who is around fifteen times more frequently used for the objective case than whom.
- 2 On the use of who and that in relative clauses see usage at that
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