| 词组 | whereby, wherein |
| 释义 | whereby, wherein Criticized by several commentators as archaic or excessively formal, these words continue nevertheless to be in widespread use as conjunctions in general as well as in more elevated prose: • ... substituting a system whereby the federal government would return tax money to the states —Current Biography, October 1967 • ... a program whereby foreign-service officers will serve —David FitzHugh, Saturday Rev., 18 Oct. 1975 • ... find approaches whereby they can learn —Dr. Jeanne Chall, The Instructor, March 1968 • ... chivalric fable wherein the heroine suffers and dies —John Seelye, New York, 15 Feb. 1971 • ... another book ... wherein so many pronouns do (or attempt) the work of so few appositives —David J. Dwyer, Commonweal, 22 Aug. 1969 • ... a poetic style wherein ... he can be the gregarious flirt—Richard Poirier, A World Elsewhere, 1966 • ... saw the rooms wherein and the devices whereby the enemies of Hitler were killed —Ben Hibbs, Boy's Life, September 1965 As an interrogative adverb (as in Shakespeare's "Whereby hangs a tale, sir?"), whereby is obsolete. Wherein continues to be used as an interrogative adverb, but only rarely: • Wherein lies the difference? —Louise M. Rosenblatt, in The Promise of English: NCTE Distinguished Lectures, 1970 |
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