Old English nahwær "nowhere, not at all;" see no + where. Similar constructions were attempted with nowhat (1520s) and nowhen (1764), but they failed to take hold and remain nonce words.
权威例句
1. These rootless young people have nowhere else to go.
这些漂泊不定的年轻人没有其他地方可去。
2. The bowlers at the eye of the storm were nowhere in evidence.
处于风口浪尖的那些投手不见了踪影。
3. Houses had sprung up out of nowhere on the hills.
山丘上突然冒出一幢幢的房子。
4. It was nowhere near as painful as David had expected.
这远不如戴维所料想的那么痛苦。
5. "Getting nowhere fast," pronounced Crosby, "that's what we're doing."