喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two statements laid side by side on a table so a reader can see the gap between them. 'Whereas' is the word that puts them there: it holds up one fact next to another and then keeps quiet, letting the difference do the talking.

可以想成把兩句話並排擺在桌上，好讓人一眼看出兩者的落差。whereas 就像那個擺放的動作：它把一個事實舉到另一個事…更多收起可以想成把兩句話並排擺在桌上，好讓人一眼看出兩者的落差。whereas 就像那個擺放的動作：它把一個事實舉到另一個事實旁邊，自己不下評論，讓兩邊的差距自己說話。

From the picture

法律文件開頭的「鑑於」

一樣是把一個事實舉起來給人看，只是這回不是為了跟另一件事對照，而是要當作後面條文的前提：文件先把既有的情況一條條擺明，接著才寫出因此決定的事。

whereas (legal preamble) · conjunction · B2

Used at the start of an official or legal paper to mean 'because of this fact' or 'considering that'.

鑑於

Also in this word

whereas (contrast) · conjunction · B2

Used to compare two things and show that they are different from each other.

然而 / 反之

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

whereasadv/wɛəɹˈaz/

  • 1

    obsoleteWhere (that).

    • And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night […]

whereasconj/wɛəɹˈaz/

  • 1

    In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although.

    • He came first in the race, whereas his brother came last.
    • One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
  • 2

    lawIt being the fact that; inasmuch as. (Often used to begin recitals; sometimes emboldened or emphasized as a signifier.)

    • And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.

whereasnoun/wɛəɹˈaz/

  • 1

    A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.

    • […]the promise is stated after a whereas, though the promise is the very gist of the action, yet, such a count so framed, will be held good on demurrer.
    • It had a page or so of whereases.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。