whence

adv

• ① 【文】【古】[疑问词]1从何处(=from where)2由于什么(理由)3[当疑问代名词]何处?
  • Nobody knows whence she has come.没有人知道她来自何处。
  • Whence comes it that [How is it that] the people of this country are so selfish?这个国家的人民何以如此自私?
  • From whence is he?他是来自何处?

• ② 1[关系词]由…,从那里…的2[包含先行词的关系副词用法]来处,根源
  • the source whence [from which] evils spring万恶的根源
  • He returned whence he had come.他回到他原来的地方。