英语

其他形式

词源

源自中古英語 、、，等价于 (“什么”) +‎ 。 对比荷蘭語 (“为何”)、德語 (“为何”)、丹麥語和挪威語 (“为何”)、瑞典語 (“为何”)。详见、。

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

(不可比)

  1. (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
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    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 21:7，列號 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. (连接副词，陈述副词，古舊或正式) 因此
    • 2010 3月 17, House of the United States, House Resolution 1031‎:
      Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.
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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

  1. (古舊) 因此
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 30:12–13，列號 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, 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

(複數)

  1. 缘由，目的
    • c. 1594, , “”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]，頁號 88，列號 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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衍生词汇

参考资料

  1. ↑ Gary Martin (1997–), “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”, The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.
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