| 词汇 | whence |
| 释义 | whence adverb, conjunction formaluk /wens/ us /wens/ (from) where: 从那里 It has been returned to the shop from whence it came.已经把它退还给原商店了。 Linguistics: relative forms howsoever or that what whatever where whereby whereof wheresoever wherever which whichever whoever whom whomever whose whosoever wot You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistics: question words & expressions Examples of whencewhence Insofar as it is the whence of both our active and receptive existence, it is always in the background. But whence did cultural (or personal) preferences and conventions come? And we continue to validate our own use of the term by reference to an increasingly shadowy and distant social science whence it came. And every improbable, inconceivable, and amazing thing does happen, whence the stories which form the legacy of all our catastrophes and pain. From whence its appeal and its staying power? The incorruptible body would not be identical to the corruptible body from whence it came. We are in the split case, whence the results of 6 apply. Whence does this new-found authority of experimental practice stem? But if this is so, whence comes our trust in such a revelation? Another nuanced version of thick description - in fact, this is the original source from whence the term thick description emerged (see note 12) - is ethnography. Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us ' ' (258). Whence the confusion in this developing eclectic milieu. They have claimed, in brief, that the world of nature is not closed, that something different interferes to remind us whence we came. A critical architecture remains in dialogue with its first site and origin, the drawing: from whence, its immateriality. Sometimes the receiving archives did not themselves know, and were never able to record, from whence they came. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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