Wherefore
['weəfɔː] or ['wɛrfɔr]
解釋/意思:
(adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
(adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.
(n.) the reason why.
手打:卡尔
同義詞及近義詞：
ad. & conj. Why, for what cause or reason, on what account.
錄入:玛格
例句/造句/用法:
- Else wherefore live we in a Christian land, eighteen hundred and odd years after our Master? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Wherefore look now what thou doest, and whether there be any rescue. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Wherefore each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I see she is uncomfortable, and I plainly see this is the good reason wherefore. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- O wherefore are love and ruin for ever joined in this our mortal dream? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She has despised me--repulsed me--reviled me--And wherefore should I offer up for her whatever of estimation I have in the opinion of others? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- If he be ever asked how, why, when, or wherefore, he shuts up one eye and shakes his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Wherefore do I feel thus? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I crave pardon, noble lord, said Isaac timidly, but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We had been used to look forward to death tremulously-- wherefore, but because its place was obscure? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Wherefore, Mr Pancks said, 'What do you mean by that? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Wherefore should this be? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Wherefore we pray you heartily to beware, and to be found watching, even as the Holy Text hath it, 'Invenientur vigilantes'. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I conceived that I was different and superior to my protectors and companions, but I knew not how or wherefore. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
編輯:马丁