nor是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为conj. /ad. 也不, 也没有,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars; but Passepartout found neither arms nor hunting weapons anywhere; everything betrayed the most tranquil and peaceable habits.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Knowledge!I'm plug doc--got chick nor child--nobody--old drunk.
-- Yet the man stood out so bleakly from a mass of students who could neither complete their experiments nor ponder nor do anything save smoke pipes and watch football-practice that Martin loved him while he hated him, and almost meekly he followed him into Digamma Pi.
-- She was feminine but undemanding; she was never Improving and rarely shocked; she was neither flirtatious nor cold.
-- Certainly Leora had appallingly never heard of these great ones, nor even attended the concerts, the lectures, the recitals at which Madeline apparently spent all her glittering evenings.
-- Through that hot summer Martin and Leora labored, panting, and when they sat in her room, over their books and a stout pot of beer, neither their costumes nor their language had the decorum which one ought to expect from a romantic pair devoted to science and high endeavor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolu-tionist, Dostoevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to read Fourier and Proudhon.
-- Like a clerk, he wore no beard, nor moustache, but had been so long unshaven that his chin looked like a stiff greyish brush.
-- Nor has either Dounia or I breathed a word to him of the great hopes we have of his helping us to pay for your university studies; we have not spoken of it in the first place, because it will come to pass of itself, later on, and he will no doubt without wasting words offer to do it of himself, (as though he could refuse Dounia that) the more readily since you may by your own efforts be-come his right hand in the office, and receive this assistance 58 Crime and Punishmentnot as a charity, but as a salary earned by your own work.
-- Then he was interested by the question why in all great towns men are not simply driven by ne-cessity, but in some peculiar way inclined to live in those parts of the town where there are no gardens nor fountains; where there is most dirt and smell and all sorts of nastiness.
-- No one was on the stairs, nor in the gateway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The evening wind made such a disturbancejust now, among some tall old elmtrees at the bottom of the garden,that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing thatway.
-- Nor do I recollect that Mr. Murdstone laughed at all thatday, except at the Sheffield joke- and that, by the bye, was his own.
-- 'Nor him?'
-- I felt thetouch of a hand that I knew was neither hers nor Peggotty's, andslipped to my feet at the bedside.
-- Nor is it your fault.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- She had resolu-tion enough to pursue her own will in spite of her brother, but not enough to refrain from unreasonable regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger, nor from missing the luxuries of her former home.
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.
-- He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not at the bird, nor at the cat; it was at an oblong package tied in paper, and lying between them.
-- "But Charlotte," continued Coggan "not a word of the sort would Charlotte allow, nor the smallest item of taking in vain.... Ay, poor Charlotte, I wonder if she had the good fortune to get into Heaven when 'a died!But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul."
-- "Neither drum nor trumpet have I heard since Christmas," said Jan Coggan.
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