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wherefore

释义:

wherefore

wherefore,英语单词,主要用作名词、连词、副词,作名词时译为“原因;理由”,作连词时译为“因此”,作副词时译为“为什么(疑问副词);为此(关系副词)”。

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英语

其他形式

  • wherefor

词源

源自中古英语 wherforwherforehwarfore,等价于where- (=什么) +‎ for。 对比荷兰语 waarvoor (为何)德语 wofür (为何)丹麦语挪威语 hvorfor (为何)瑞典语 varför (为何)。详见wherefor

发音

  • 英语发音wâ(r)'fô(r)"IPA(帮助)/ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
  • 英语发音hwâ(r)'fô(r)"IPA(帮助)/ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
  • 断字:where‧fore

副词

wherefore(无比较级

  1. (连接副词, 疑问副词, 古旧) 何故为何为什么
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    • 1611The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Job 21:7, column 1:
      Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?
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    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
      "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
  2. (连接副词, 陈述副词, 古旧正式) 因此
    • 2010年3月17日,House of the United States, House Resolution 1031[1]:
      Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.
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用法说明

将“wherefore”解读为“where”是常见的误解,这种误读有时会出现在莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的复述中,且常是为了喜剧效果。在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中“Wherefore art thou Romeo?”(第2幕第2场第33句台词)意思不是“你在,罗密欧”,而是“为什么是你,罗密欧?”(“为什么你属于蒙塔古家族?”,即和朱丽叶的家族有世仇的一个家族)。[1]

连词

wherefore

  1. (古旧) 为什么
    • 1611The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 30:12–13, column 1:
      Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.
      所以以色列的圣者如此说:‘因为你们藐视这训诲的话,倚赖欺压和乖僻,以此为可靠的,故此,这罪孽在你们身上好像将要破裂凸出来的高墙,顷刻之间忽然坍塌。
    • 1914,Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker[2],The Gutenberg Project,出版年份2009:
      Wherefore it was that by the time the authorities awoke to the fact that something had happened Billy Byrne was fifty miles west of Joliet, bowling along aboard a fast Santa Fe freight.
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名词

wherefore(复数 wherefores

  1. 缘由目的
    • c. 1594William Shakespeare,“The Comedie of Errors”,出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio),London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount,出版年份1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], 页号88, column 2:
      Ant[ipholus of Syracuse]. Shall I tell you why? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] I, ſir, and wherefore; for they ſay, euery why hath a wherefore.
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    • 1996,Richard Bausch, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, 页号72:
      They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
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衍生词汇

  • whys and wherefores

参考资料

  1. Gary Martin (1997–), “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”, The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.