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[[求助与讨论]] What time?

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发表于 2007-11-2 22:46:36 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式

“What time do you work out every morning?” is a common sentence.

However, someone asks me a question:
Why should “What time” not be changed into “At what time”?
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发表于 2007-11-2 23:01:22 | 显示全部楼层
I don't think we can say like "at what time". If never we need to precise the time, I think maybe we should say "at which o'clock",if it is right.............................
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 楼主| 发表于 2007-11-2 23:11:29 | 显示全部楼层
For example,
  -----What time do you get up in the morning?
  -----I get up at 6.00 a.m.

Why is it that the answer "at 6.00 a.m." is "at what time", yet the question is "what time"?
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发表于 2007-11-2 23:31:54 | 显示全部楼层
特殊疑问句都是以疑问词开头的呀?除了在从句中,还有没有“介词+疑问词”的例句?
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 楼主| 发表于 2007-11-2 23:33:30 | 显示全部楼层
Here,

In which lecture hall did you have the lecture?
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发表于 2007-11-2 23:35:24 | 显示全部楼层
I give up answer your question in English.

我想这个介词at只是引导了一个普通时间概念的时间状语,尽管连接了一个特定的时间。对于这样一个介词+时间的普通时间概念性质的整体时间提问,那么我想应该说什么时间what time。但是如果想对确切的时间提问,那么我想应该对特定的钟点提问,在这样的条件下,那么这个介词at已经不属于提问对象之内,因此应该表达成在几点at which o'clock.
我只是从中文以及另外一种语言的提问方式照样画葫芦而已。
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发表于 2007-11-2 23:36:55 | 显示全部楼层
是呀,糊涂了

有这样的例子:

I arrived on Thursday morning.

At exactly what time?

那么,这样用应该没问题呀
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发表于 2007-11-2 23:39:31 | 显示全部楼层
但不管怎么说,这是一种较少见的用法,所谓marked or deviated, 可以视为表示强调吧?
也就是说要对方回答得比通常更具体。
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