whence
[hwɛns, wɛns]
adv.
从何处，从那里;
（到）…的地方;
出于什么原因;
n.
来源，来处，根源;
pron.
哪里，何处;
conj.
从那个地方;
由此，据此;
例句:
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Crooks, from whence used to dangle...legs of...mutton.
来自R. S. Surtees
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No one ordered him back whence he came.
没有人命令过他从哪里来回哪里去。
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They returned whence they had come.
他们从哪里来又回到哪里去了。
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All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
姑娘个个好, 泼妇何处来?
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I did not know whence came my breath.
来自E. Muir
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Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
来自SA