The means you need to do something — most often the money, but it can also be the skill, energy, courage, or resources. "He doesn't have the wherewithal to start a business" usually means he lacks the money; "she lacked the emotional wherewithal to face them" means she lacked the inner strength.

The means you need to do something做某件事所需要的憑藉—— most often the money最常見的是錢， but it can also be the skill, energy, courage, or resources但也可以是技能、精力、勇氣或資源。 "He doesn't have the wherewithal to start a business"「He doesn't have the wherewithal to start a business他沒有創業的本錢」 usually means he lacks the money通常指他缺錢； "she lacked the emotional wherewithal to face them"「she lacked the emotional wherewithal to face them她沒有面對他們的心理能耐」 means she lacked the inner strength意思是她缺乏內在的力量。

It is a noun, always singular, and it almost always comes with "the" and then "to do something": have / lack / find the wherewithal to do X. It sounds formal but slightly warm, the kind of word you see in newspapers and hear from older, well-read speakers rather than in casual chat.

It is a noun, always singular它是名詞，永遠是單數， and it almost always comes with "the" and then "to do something"而且幾乎都是「the」加「to do something」的形式： have / lack / find the wherewithal to do Xhave/lack/find the wherewithal to do X（有／缺／找到做X的本事）。 It sounds formal but slightly warm聽起來正式，但帶點溫暖的感覺， the kind of word you see in newspapers and hear from older, well-read speakers rather than in casual chat是那種你會在報紙上看到、從博學年長者口中聽到，而不是在隨性聊天裡出現的字。

There is a nice flexibility here that dictionaries often flatten: the word does not name the resource, it names having-enough-of-whatever-it-takes, so the reader fills in the right kind from the situation. Long ago it was an adverb meaning simply "with which"; the noun we use now only appeared around 1800.

There is a nice flexibility here that dictionaries often flatten這裡有一種字典常常沒表現出來的彈性： the word does not name the resource這個字不指名是哪一種資源， it names having-enough-of-whatever-it-takes它指的是「擁有足夠應付所需的那個東西」這件事本身， so the reader fills in the right kind from the situation讀者要自己從情境裡判斷是哪一種。 Long ago it was an adverb meaning simply "with which"很久以前它是個副詞，意思單純是「用那個」； the noun we use now only appeared around 1800我們現在用的名詞用法一直到1800年左右才出現。