somehow

读音

• /ˈsʌmhaʊ/

释义

1. 以某種（未知的）方式或原因；不知怎的

   This problem has to be tackled somehow.

   必须以某种方式解决这个问题。

   We don't know how he's still alive after the accident, but somehow he is.

   我们不知道事故发生后他为什么还活着，但他确实不知为何活了下来。

   It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other.

   爱德华创作《山羊》、《动物园故事》或《海景》时，其中有两只蜥蜴，莎拉和莱斯利，这并非偶然。事实上，在他的所有戏剧中，动物都相当突出，不知何故。

   December 1, 2016, Tom Donaghy writing in The New York Times, Tender Side of Edward Albee

   Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

   1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

   Have I not loathed to live again and said It would have been far better to be dead, And yet somehow, I know not why, Remained afraid to die!

   我曾厌恶继续活下去，并说过“死了更好”，但不知为何，我仍旧害怕死亡！

   1895，William Dean Howells，Mortality：

   Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.

   虽然他是家里最小的孩子，但他却以某种方式全面管理着其他所有人。

   1817，Sir Walter Scott，Rob Roy：