Do you know the answer to this question? 你知道这道题的答案吗?
He answered that he knew nothing about it. 他答复说关于此事他一无所知。
This plan has not answered, we must find a better one. 这个计划未成功,我们必须另立一个更好的计划。
answer
[ noun ]
a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
<noun.communication> I waited several days for his answer he wrote replies to several of his critics
a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
<noun.communication> they were trying to find a peaceful solution the answers were in the back of the book he computed the result to four decimal places
the speech act of replying to a question
<noun.communication>
the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
<noun.communication>
a nonverbal reaction
<noun.act> his answer to any problem was to get drunk their answer was to sue me [ verb ]
Answer \An"swer\ ([a^]n"s[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Answered} ([a^]n"s[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Answering}.] [OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See {Answer}, n.] 1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
She answers him as if she knew his mind. --Shak.
So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. --Milton.
3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
No man was able to answer him a word. --Matt. xxii. 46.
These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. --Milton.
The reasoning was not and could not be answered. --Macaulay.
4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: (a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. --Shak. (b) To render account to or for.
I will . . . send him to answer thee. --Shak. (c) To atone; to be punished for.
And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it. --Shak. (d) To be opposite to; to face.
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. --Gilpin. (e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.]
Money answereth all things. --Eccles. x. 19. (f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. --Swift.
Answer \An"swer\, v. i. 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
There was no voice, nor any that answered. --1 Kings xviii. 26.
2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. --Shak.
3. To be or act in return. Hence: (a) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
Do the strings answer to thy noble hand? --Dryden. (b) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. (c) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. (d) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. --Shak.
If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. --Shak.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. --Prov. xxvii. 19.
Answer \An"swer\, n. [OE. andsware, AS. andswaru; and against + swerian to swear. [root]177, 196. See {Anti-}, and {Swear}, and cf. 1st {un-}.] 1. A reply to a charge; a defense.
At my first answer no man stood with me. --2 Tim. iv. 16.
2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. --Prov. xv. 1.
I called him, but he gave me no answer. --Cant. v. 6.
3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. --Shak.
4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
5. (Law) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. --Bouvier.
Syn: Reply; rejoinder; response. See {Reply}.
The answer, according to Sen. Joseph Biden, depends on which conservative nominee he's lecturing.
Webb countered by pulling out a written answer Reagan had given two years ago to a federal grand jury saying that no destruction of documents had been authorized by the president.
The sentence followed a hearing before Bell in which Chambers' attorney, Jack Litman, complained that the probation report on his client was "slanted" and asked for an opportunity to answer charges made by the prosecution in the report.
This is a difficult question to answer or even to discuss in this limited space.
(By cloning he means not egg-splitting but replicating an existing or deceased person: 'I've never met anyone in the world who is worth cloning, and that's been my stock answer for 10 years.') Another was implanting human embryos in animals.
Also since the accident, both the Directors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild set up 24-hour hotlines to answer questions on safety issues on a movie set.
We believe the real answer in both cases is "no," and there are numerous examples to reinforce our position.
No doubt the answer is long and complex and contains structural elements.
But no one here can answer it." In Budapest, a Hungarian official said the transfer of refugees was stalled because of fears over how Hungary's role would be viewed by allied East Germany.
One of the questions Briscoe refused to answer was why he gave Wilson a 15 percent interest in one project in Riviera Beach, Fla.
Otherwise, a human must answer the phone and decide.
Mr Heseltine had been drafted in to answer Mr Smith because Mr Norman Lamont, the chancellor, was giving evidence to the Treasury committee. Mr Smith used his opening speech to review the government's pledges of an early economic upturn.
There was no answer at the Costa Mesa, Calif. office of an ICN spokesman when a reporter called for comment.
"Sometimes, you are talking away, and the person doesn't answer.
Rep. Dennis Eckart of Ohio, giving the Democrats' response, said Dukakis and Bentsen would do more than the Republicans to answer Americans' most pressing concerns.
They answer simply, "Yes." The most popular of those commercials stars "Saturday Night Live" comic Kevin Nealon in his smarmy "Mr.
"The real answer to alcohol abuse and any social costs associated with it is education of the public, and especially the young," said Gary Zizka of the National Beer Wholesalers' Association in a telephone interview Thursday from Washington.
Dukakis aides and allies said they were considering a harbor event of their own to answer the expected Bush attacks on Dukakis' handling of the harbor project.
In part, the answer may be that Santa Fe has counted on using proceeds from the sale of some assets to pay for its planned stock buy-backs and may have been reluctant to make major stock purchases without completing those sales.
Of the men reporting sex in the previous year, 3 percent said their partners included males and another 6 percent didn't answer the question.
"I think the answer will continue to be negative as long as the situation isn't clarified, and maybe we never will," he added.
After a brief, animated discussion, Icahn flicked the back of his hand, walked back to the reporters and fired off his answer: "Yes.
When he gave tapes for mental rehearsal to Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn, England's props, he received a dusty answer.
Lawyers familiar with EC law said GC&C would have to answer the EC complaint or risk facing stiff penalties.
Well you have the answer now.
A spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute and a spokesman for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. did not answer phone calls made to numbers listed for their homes on Sunday afternoon.
The answer, perhaps, is to distinguish between "secret" and "quiet" diplomacy.
"Look at our own deficit and answer that question for yourselves," DeLay said.
This step-by-step method is "the best answer anybody's come up with yet" to ensure food safety, Joseph Hotchkiss, an associate professor of food chemistry and toxicology at Cornell University said during a telephone interview Tuesday.
Where it once had to answer only to the timber industry, the service now has a crowd of watchdogs panting over its shoulder.