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whereas

/wair-az, hwair-/US // wɛərˈæz, ʰwɛər- //UK // (wɛərˈæz) //

而,鉴于,然而,而对于

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Definitions

conj.连词 conjunction
  1. 1
    • : while on the contrary: One arrived promptly, whereas the others hung back.
    • : it being the case that, or considering that.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural where·as·es.

    • : a qualifying or introductory statement, especially one having “whereas” as the first word: to read the whereases in the will.

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Examples

  • “Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.

  • But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.

  • Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.

  • Oh, and that his profile on Twitter and his name elsewhere say “Ian Miles Cheong” whereas mine says “Arthur Chu.”

  • Japanese distillers often use a combination of different types of stills and different casks, whereas the Scots cannot.

  • Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

  • Such an act would be of a piece with Nigel's character, whereas a liaison—and yet Nigel was no saint.

  • One black key is made to serve, for instance, for D sharp and for E flat, whereas the two notes are in reality not identical.

  • It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.

  • Moreover, Rita liked him, whereas she had never sincerely liked and trusted Sir Lucien.