- 1其、該項的(正式、法律用語,等於「of it」;常見於合約條文)
"Thereof" means "of that" or "of it", pointing back to something already named. It comes AFTER the noun it belongs to: "the house and the contents thereof" = the contents of the house. "He read the report and questioned the accuracy thereof." It is a formal, legal-sounding word, and its whole job is to avoid repeating a long name — instead of "the accuracy of the Nineteenth Annual Environmental Impact Report", you write "the accuracy thereof". You will find it in contracts, laws, wills, technical writing, and the Bible. In everyday English people just say "of it", "its", or "of them". One phrase escaped into normal speech and you should know it: "or some variation thereof", meaning "or something like that" — "He said he was tired, or some variation thereof." People use that one half-jokingly, enjoying the stiff sound.
組成there + of. "There" standing for "that", plus "of" — so "of that".
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
thereofadv/ðɛˈɹʌv/
- 1
Of this, that, or it.
- lack thereof
- On the occurrence of an explosion from any boiler to which this Act applies, notice thereof shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, be sent to the Board of Trade by the owner or user, or by the person acting on behalf of the owner or user.
- 2
From that circumstance or origin; therefrom, thence.
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