| 释义 |
thence, adv.|ðɛns|
Forms: 3–4 þannes, 4 þ-, thennus, 4–5 þ-, thennes, -is, -ys, þens, 4–6 thens, 5 þenns, 5–6 thense, 6– thence.
[ME. þannes, þennes, f. thenne adv., with adverbial genitive suffix -es, -s. The later spelling thence for thens was to preserve the breath sound of s when final inflexional s became (z); as in hence, pence, defence, once, twice, mice, price, etc.]
1. From that place; from there. (Now chiefly literary.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 50/137 And bad heom of þulke holie bodi: Þat huy it þannes bere. 1340Ayenb. 12 Ha [Christ] wente into helle..uor to draȝe þannes..þe zaules of þe holi uaderes. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 98, I..am temted ful tid to turne me þennus. 13..Cursor M. 164 (Gött.) Hu þat he was þennis [Trin. þennes; Cott. theþen] ledd. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 232 Er they thennes [v.rr. þennes, þens, thens] wente..They fille in speche. c1400Brut 103 Þat men myȝt hit nouȝt remeve ne bere þenns. Ibid. 114 Or he departede þens. 1526Tindale Mark vi. 1 He departed thens and cam in to his awne countre. 1536Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 51 The Kinge with his companye departed thense. 1667Milton P.L. i. 12 If Sion hill Delight thee more,..I thence Invoke thy aid. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iv. 123 Thence..the pilgrims came to the beautiful low shrine. 1895Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 156/2 The ‘Kirkmichael’ left Liverpool..on a voyage thence to Melbourne.
b. Preceded by redundant from († fro).
1382Wyclif Mark vi. 1 And Jhesus gon out thennis [v.r. fro thennes]. 1388Ibid., And he ȝede out fro thennus. c1400Destr. Troy 13270 To a perellus place past I fro thens. 1535Coverdale Baruch vi. 2 After that wil I bringe you awaye peaceably from thence. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxi. x. 177 He commanded Victor the Hystoriographer, whom he saw at Sirmium, to come from thence unto him. 1703Pope Thebais 383 Begin from thence, where first Alpheus hides His wand'ring stream. 1867Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1883) III. 9 Making our way homeward from thence by easy stages.
†c. As a relative (also thence that): From which place, whence. Obs. rare.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1906) 36 Y must to the erthe thennes that y come fro.
2. At a place distant or away from there; distant; absent. Now chiefly in stating distance.
c1290Beket 1780 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 157 To longe ich habbe þannes i-beo. c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 530 Lat a man stond..A myle thens and here hyt route. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 28 Though they..haue leue to be thense yet yt suffysyth not. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. x. 257 True proues that all that day he was ferre thens. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. V 13 While one manne is there, which is neuer thence. Mod. Two miles thence is a fine waterfall.
3. From that time or date; thenceforward; thenceforth. Mostly with from. ? Obs.
c1374[see thenceforth 1]. 1382Wyclif Isa. xvi. 13 The wrd that the Lord spac to Moab fro thennys [1388 fro that tyme]. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 197 He seid that peple schulde frothens after worschipe. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Justine xx. 78 That no subiect of Carthage should from thence learne Greeke letters. a1751Bolingbroke Stud. Hist. (1752) I. vi. 236 From thence down to the present day. a1832Bentham Mem. & Corr. Wks. 1843 X. 62, I must have seen him..more than once at Romilly's, and thence afterwards at my own house.
4. From that, as a source, origin, or cause; (as an inference) from those premisses or data; therefrom. Also preceded by from.
1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 2 Next are premised som things, for explaining the terms of the Question, that it may bee clearly thence understood. 1692E. Walker Epictetus' Mor. ix, Weigh every Circumstance, each Consequence, And usual Accident arising thence. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 409 It would thence follow, that..the number of women would daily go on [etc.]. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. ix. 702 They could present to parliament every thing which favoured their own purposes, keep back every thing which opposed them; and thence more effectually deceive the nation. |