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wherefore

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英語

其他形式

  • wherefor

詞源

源自中古英語 wherforwherforehwarfore,等價於where- (什麼) +‎ for。 對比荷蘭語 waarvoor (為何)德語 wofür (為何)丹麥語挪威語 hvorfor (為何)瑞典語 varför (為何)。詳見wherefor

發音

  • 英語發音wâ(r)'fô(r)"國際音標(幫助): /ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
  • 英語發音hwâ(r)'fô(r)"國際音標(幫助): /ˈʍeə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/
  • 斷字:where‧fore

副詞

wherefore (無比較級)

  1. (連接副詞疑問副詞古舊) 何故為何為什麼
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    • 1611The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Job 21:7,列 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. (連接副詞陳述副詞古舊正式) 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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用法說明

將「wherefore」解讀為「where」是常見的誤解,這種誤讀有時會出現在莎士比亞的《羅密歐與朱麗葉》的複述中,且常是為了喜劇效果。在《羅密歐與朱麗葉》中「Wherefore art thou Romeo?」(第2幕第2場第33句台詞)意思不是「你在,羅密歐」,而是「為什麼是你,羅密歐?」(「為什麼你屬於蒙塔古家族?」,即和朱麗葉的家族有世仇的一個家族)。[1]

連詞

wherefore

  1. (古舊) 因此
    • 1611The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:12–13,列 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, 出版於 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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名詞

wherefore (複數 wherefores)

  1. 緣由目的
    • c. 1594William Shakespeare,「The Comedie of Errors」, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio),London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]88,列 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 72:
      They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.
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衍生詞彙

  • whys and wherefores

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