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英语

其他形式

wherefor

词源

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

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

副词

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, Job 21:7，列 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.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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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

wherefore

(古舊) 因此
- 1611，The 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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名词

wherefore (複數 wherefores)

缘由，目的
- c. 1594，William 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]，頁 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.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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衍生词汇

whys and wherefores

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