中文词源
whence 从何处，从哪里
when,来自其原始含义之一，哪里，词源同where,何处，哪里，-ce,属格后缀。
英语词源
- whence (adv., conj.)
- early 13c., whennes, with adverbial genitive -s, from Old English hwanone, related to hwænne (see when). Spelling with -ce (1520s) reflects the voiceless pronunciation.
权威例句
- 1. No one ordered him back whence he came.
- 没有人命令过他从哪里来回哪里去。
- 2. They returned whence they had come.
- 他们从哪里来又回到哪里去了。
- 3. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
- 姑娘个个好, 泼妇何处来?
- 4. Let him return to the place whence he came.
- 让他回到他所来的地方.
- 5. He knows neither his whence nor his whither.
- 他不知道从哪里来,到哪里去.