whence

whence [(h)wens] adv. [书面语]

1. ■ [疑问副词]从何处; 出于什么原因

2. ■ [关系副词]从哪里, 由此

3. ■ [连接副词]到...的地方

Whence did you come? 你从哪 儿来?

Let him return to the place whence he came. 让他回到他所来的地方。

No one knows whence she came. 谁也不知道她从何处来。

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词性变化

whence [(h)wens] pron.

1. ■ [疑问代词]何处

2. ■ [关系代词]那里

the source from whence it springs 这事发生的根源

From whence is he? 他是哪 里人?

whence [(h)wens] n.

1. ■ 来处, 根源

He knows neither his whence nor his whither. 他不知道从哪里来, 到哪里去。