whence是什么意思？

whence

英[wens] 美[hwɛns, wɛns]

• adv. 从何处，从那里，（到）…的地方，出于什么原因；
• n. 来源，来处，根源；
• pron. 哪里，何处；
• conj. 从那个地方，由此，据此；

例句

• All are good lasses,but whence come the bad wives? 姑娘个个好,泼妇何处来?
• Whence came the rich, elegant dresses, the astonishingly coloured buttons, the knick - knacks of silver and gold? 这些富丽的高雅的服装 、 五光十色的钮扣和金银小饰物,它们是从哪里来的?
• And Valaskialf, whence odin could watch all gods and men. 另外还有佛拉斯卡夫,从这里奥丁可以看到人类及众神.
• No one ordered him back whence he came. 没有人命令过他从哪里来回哪里去。
• He knows neither his whence nor his whither. 他不知道从哪里来,到哪里去.
• Let him return to the place whence he came. 让他回到他所来的地方.
• They returned whence they had come. 他们从哪里来又回到哪里去了。
• By now he was quite aware as to whence this powerful uprising had sprung. 现在他很清楚,这种强有力的骚动是从哪里来的.
• Or , if not, thou strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come? " 要不是这样, 你这个怪里怪气的小妖精似的孩子是从哪儿来的? ”

反义词

• adv.
  whence的反义词之：从那里
  whither,
• whence的反义词之：其他释义
  whither,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• QUEST
  从何处;来自何方
  Whence means from where.
  例句
  No one ordered him back whence he came. 没有人命令过他从哪里来回哪里去。

英汉词典释义

• adv.
  从何处,从那里
  All are good lasses,but whence come the bad wives? 姑娘个个好,泼妇何处来?

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. from what place or origin or source;
  "whence did he come?""whence comes this splendid feast?""sketches the lawless society whence the ballads sprang"-DeLancey Ferguson