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词汇 whether
释义 whether
conjunction
uk /ˈweð.ər/ us /ˈweð.ɚ/
B1
(used especially in reporting questions and expressing doubts) if, or not: (尤用于转述问题或表达疑问)是否
I wasn't sure whether you'd like it.我拿不准你是否喜欢它。
She asked me whether I was interested in working for her.她问我是否有兴趣为她工作。
I'm wondering whether to have the fish or the beef.我正在考虑是吃鱼还是吃牛肉。
I doubt whether it'll work.我怀疑这是否能起作用。
I was merely questioning whether we have the money to fund such a project.我只是想问问我们有没有钱来资助这样一个项目。
whether or notIt all depends on whether or not she has the time.这完全取决于她是否有时间。
Anyway, it's a good story, whether or not it's true.不管怎么说,这是一个不错的说法,无论它是真是假。
 whether...or
B1
(used to introduce two or more possibilities) it is not important if: (用于引出两种或多种可能性)不管…还是…;或者…或者…
whether ... or notI'm going, whether she likes it or not.不管她高不高兴我都要走。
He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
The authorities debated whether to build a new car park.政府有关部门就是否要修建一座新停车场进行了讨论。
We need to consider whether the disadvantages of the plan outweigh the advantages.我们要考虑一下该计划是否弊大于利。
She asked the man sitting opposite whether he'd mind if she opened the window.她问坐在对面的那位男子是否介意她把窗打开。
She doubts whether she'll ever be able to fulfil her ambition.究竟是否能够实现自己的理想,她没有把握。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: connecting words which express a condition
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Grammar



Whether not if
We use whether and not if after prepositions: …

I doubt if, I don’t know whether
We use if or whether to introduce clauses after verbs of doubting: …

If, whether: typical errors
We use whether, not if, before to-infinitives: …

If or whether?


If and whether: indirect questions
We can use if or whether to report indirect yes-no questions and questions with or. If is more common than whether: …

Whether
Whether is a conjunction. …

Whether in indirect questions
We use whether in indirect yes-no questions and questions with or. We can’t leave out whether (or if): …

Whether … or
We use whether … or to introduce a clause giving two options or alternatives: …

Whether … or not
We use whether … or not or whether or not to give an opposite alternative: …

whether | American Dictionary


whether
conjunction
us/ˈhweð·ər, ˈweð-/
(used to refer to one or more possibilities or to express uncertainty) if:
I didn’t know whether he was too busy or (whether) he just didn’t want to see me.
I wasn’t sure whether (or not) you’d like it.

Idiom


whether or not

Examples of whether


whether
In all cases, these long-term experiments, whether comparing organic to conventional systems, or comparing more than one organic system, are particularly useful demonstration tools.
With pretense, disguise, and unreflective belief in disinterested philosophical analysis, philosophers can easily objectify the interests of certain power groups, whether scientific or political.
This is why it is much easier to determine whether a philosophical principle is true than to determine the extent of its validity.
First, one may question whether there are future events that are currently physically necessitated.
But whether it exists cannot be decided on purely conceptual grounds.
It sets out to explore whether herding endogenously induces correlations in security returns.
It remains to be analysed whether such a mechanism is working in tapeworminfected copepods as well.
But the question regarding whether such a prayer can be impetratory still remains.
These vary depending on whether the subject sways towards or away from a particular load cell.
Still, a public economist would remind us that looking at whether environmental tax swaps increase employment or not tells us nothing about social welfare.
We are not told whether they were successful.
But whether such ends are achieved may depend on how the rules are taught.
This problem surfaced as the issue of whether the rise of modern science was a natural development of premodern philosophy.
The first point to address, then, is whether the findings of variationist sociolinguistics are indeed compatible with such a model.
Future studies may address whether unexpected ionic or molecular selectivities appear in the substates.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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