where /wɛə/ I. adv. 哪里，什么地方（疑问副词，引导疑问句；连接副词，引出不定式或名词性从句；关系副词，引出定语分句）：Where do you live?你住在何处? Where have you put my book?你把我的书放到哪儿去了? I can’t decide where to go for our holidays.我还没有决定去哪儿度假。The book is where you left it.书在你放的地方。This is the town where I was born.这是我出生的城镇。I went to the National Gallery, where I saw a great many pictures. 我到了国立美术馆，在那里看到了许多绘画。‖II.conj. 在…的地方(引起地点状语)： Take him where it’s quiet. 把他带到安静的地方去。Where there is life there is hope.［谚］留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。The thread breaks where it is weakest.［谚］线总是在最不结实的地方断。［考句］I have kept that portrait where I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my university days in London.我把那张相片放在每天都能看到的地方，因为它总是使我想起在伦敦上大学的那些日子。‖III. pron. 哪里：Where do you come from? 你从哪里来? Where are you going to? 你到哪里去?(去掉from, to就成adv.)
wherever /wɛəˈevə/ I. conj.不管…在哪里 (=no matter where)；在任何…的地方(to 或 at any place where，引起从句作状语): Wherever he goes, I’ll go, and I don’t care what happens. 无论他到哪儿，我也到哪儿，我不在乎要发生什么事。Wherever the sea is, you will find seamen. 哪儿有海哪儿就有海员。‖II. adv.哪里(语气比where强)：Wherever did you go?你上哪去了? (有时将where和ever分开写，意思一样。如: Where ever did you find it?)
