wherefore
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英语[编辑]
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词源[编辑]
源自中古英語 wherfor、wherfore、hwarfore,等价于where- (“什么”) + for。 对比荷蘭語 waarvoor (“为何”)、德語 wofür (“为何”)、丹麥語和挪威語 hvorfor (“为何”)、瑞典語 varför (“为何”)。详见where、for。
发音[编辑]
- 英語發音:wâ(r)'fô(r)"、IPA(幫助):/ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
- 英語發音:hwâ(r)'fô(r)"、IPA(幫助):/ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
- 斷字:where‧fore
副词[编辑]
wherefore (無比較級)
- (连接副词, 疑问副词, 古舊) 何故,为何,为什么
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Q1-2
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Tempest
- 1611, The 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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- Template:RQ:Scott Canongate 2
- 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?"
- (连接副词, 陈述副词, 古舊或正式) 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[编辑]
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“你在哪,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[编辑]
wherefore
- (古舊) 因此
- 1611, The 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.
- 所以以色列的聖者如此說:『因為你們藐視這訓誨的話,倚賴欺壓和乖僻,以此為可靠的,故此,這罪孽在你們身上好像將要破裂凸出來的高牆,頃刻之間忽然坍塌。
- 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[编辑]
wherefore (複數 wherefores)
- 缘由,目的
- c. 1594,William 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], 頁號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, 頁號72:
- They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
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参考资料[编辑]
- ↑ Gary Martin (1997–), “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”, The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.