- Adverb
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1. from what place or origin or source;
- "whence did he come?"
- "whence comes this splendid feast?"
- "sketches the lawless society whence the ballads sprang"-DeLancey Ferguson
- synonym: wherefrom
- 1. All are good lasses,but whence come the bad wives?
- 姑娘个个好,泼妇何处来?
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. From whence is he?
- 他是哪里人?
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. He knows neither his whence nor his whither.
- 他不知道从哪里来,到哪里去。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 4. Let him return to the place whence he came.
- 让他回到他所来的地方。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 5. No one knows whence she came.
- 谁也不知道她从何处来。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 6. Whence did you come?
- 你从哪儿来?
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》


