Wherefore

(adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively.

(adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.

(n.) the reason why.

手打:卡尔

• Else wherefore live we in a Christian land, eighteen hundred and odd years after our Master? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Wherefore look now what thou doest, and whether there be any rescue. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Wherefore each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I see she is uncomfortable, and I plainly see this is the good reason wherefore. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• O wherefore are love and ruin for ever joined in this our mortal dream? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She has despised me--repulsed me--reviled me--And wherefore should I offer up for her whatever of estimation I have in the opinion of others? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• If he be ever asked how, why, when, or wherefore, he shuts up one eye and shakes his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Wherefore do I feel thus? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I crave pardon, noble lord, said Isaac timidly, but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• We had been used to look forward to death tremulously-- wherefore, but because its place was obscure? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Wherefore, Mr Pancks said, 'What do you mean by that? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Wherefore should this be? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Wherefore we pray you heartily to beware, and to be found watching, even as the Holy Text hath it, 'Invenientur vigilantes'. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I conceived that I was different and superior to my protectors and companions, but I knew not how or wherefore. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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