If you refer to the whereabouts of a particular person or thing, you mean the place where that person or thing may be found.
例句
The police are anxious to hear from anyone who may know the whereabouts of the firearms...警方急盼任何可能知道这批武器下落的人提供线索。Once he knew his father's name, finding his whereabouts proved surprisingly easy.一旦他知道了父亲的名字，查找他父亲的下落就变得出奇地容易。
QUEST
(用于疑问句)具体在哪里
You use whereabouts in questions when you are asking precisely where something is.
例句
Whereabouts in Liverpool are you from?...你从利物浦什么地方来的？Whereabouts are you living?...你的详细住址是哪里？
CONJ-SUBORD
(尤用于某些动词和形容词后，引导表示具体处所的从句)具体在哪里
You use whereabouts after certain words, especially verbs and adjectives, to introduce a clause in which you mention precisely where something is situated or happens.
例句
I live in a village near to Germaine Greer and know whereabouts she lives.我住在杰曼·格里尔家附近的村子里，知道她具体住在哪儿。
英汉词典释义
adv.
在什么地方, 靠近什么地方
Whereabouts in Scotland do they live?他们住在苏格兰的什么地方呢？
n.
下落, 去向
He became a person whose whereabouts is[are] unknown to me.他的下落我不知道。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the general location where something is;
"I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"
Adverb
1. about where or near what place;
"I don't know whereabouts the border will be drawn""whereabout do you live?"