Whence

(adv.) from what place, source, or cause.

录入:劳伦斯

• There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The gas, when purified, is conveyed to the gas-holder, whence it is forced by pressure into the mains and pipes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Thinkest thou to escape from whence in all the countless ages but a single soul has fled? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The Christian writer Lactantius asked shrewdly whence atoms came, and what proof there was of their existence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• A gentleman had done this good turn, and nowcovering her with his cloak, advanced to restore her to the house whence he had seen her issue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Whence then this obvious DISQUALITY? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• At other times this future bursts suddenly, as if a rock had rent, and in it a grave had opened, whence issues the body of one that slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Who and whence art thou, priest? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Then from whence, my friends, in a human point of view, do we derive the strength that is necessary to our limbs? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I had heard it--where, or whence, for ever impossible to know! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It terminated like the former; though something approaching to a ray, we could not tell whence, shed a very doubtful twilight in the space. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For whence should it be derived? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I do not ask whence flows the feeling which you pour into these songs, for I know it flows out of your heart, Miss Keeldar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• From whence do these papers come, you say? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He did not turn aside to the cottage, but pushed on to an eminence, whence he could see over the whole quarter that had once been Eustacia's home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The seamen soon knew whence I came last: they were curious to inquire into my voyages and course of life. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• At last, George took Emmy's hand, and led her back into the bedroom, from whence he came out alone. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I caressed him, and he wagged his great tail; but he looked an eerie creature to be alone with, and I could not tell whence he had come. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Whence did I come? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• By degrees I was brought into another room, whence I peeped into the street, but drew my head back in a fright. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Whence comes the delight I take in that talk? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In due time this happy party landed at the quays of Rotterdam, whence they were transported by another steamer to the city of Cologne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Whence came these vestments? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Whence sprung this difference? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Whence did she acquire the gift to be heedless and never offend? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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