哪些词典能查到“how now”的意思为“hello（你好）”?
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(archaic) Hello, what is that?
维基词典 (链接)
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Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
(now is) Used to introduce an address, especially one expressive of surprise or curiosity ... More frequently how now (sometimes == how do you do? at other times == what is the matter? or what are you doing here?)
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A greeting with an enquiry about health or well-being, or an expression of pleasure at meeting
> How now, daughter and cousin? Are you crept hither to see the wrestling?
Exclamation: surprise, reproach
> How now, what is in you? Why dost thou tear it?
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