| 释义 |
otherwhere, adv.|ˈʌðəhwɛə(r)|
Forms: see other a. and where. Also hyphened, or as two words.
[f. other a. + where: cf. somewhere. Very common in 16–17th c., rare or obs. in 18th, revived in 19th.]
In another place; somewhere else; elsewhere.
a1541Wyatt Deserted Lover 8 With words to win The hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 19 The reason is declared otherwher. c1630Milton Passion 25 His godlike acts, and his temptations fierce, And former sufferings other where are found. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 61 Otherwhere in this Epistle. 1706Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 5 On board..ships that lie at Portsmouth..and on those otherwhere. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes vii, But she saw not: her heart was otherwhere. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. II. 387 At Charing Cross, and otherwhere about London. 1894J. R. Illingworth Pers. Hum. & Div. vii. (1895) 186 Analogous with the workings of the human spirit otherwhere.
b. To another place.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxiii. (VII Sleperis) 92 For þat he was far to fare Of þe cyte vthyre-quhare. c1610Women Saints 92 To leaue that place and to goe other-where. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (1654) II. 28 Since your honour calls you otherwere. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 510 It seemed that time had passed on otherwhere Nor laid a finger on this hidden place.
c. quasi-n., esp. with some, any, etc. (better written separately; some other where = some other place).
c1300Cursor M. 23906, Þat..I sal tel of sum oþer quar [v.r. sum elles quar]. 1526Tindale Luke xiii. 33 It cannot be that a prophet perisshe eny other where save att Ierusalem. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxx. §4 Any thing done any other-where. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 36 Else it rained from some otherwhere. a1845Hood Poems (1846) II. 69 [To] forbear their privacy and seek some other where. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 28 Nov., They are destined for otherwhere than the plowed field with the grave at the end of it. |