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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They all hastened up the lane to the farmhouse, excepting the old maltster, whom neither news, fire, rain, nor thunder could draw from his hole.
-- Nor is it for my shepherd.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah!once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!_All is true_,--so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
-- In that district the pavements are clean and dry, there is neither mud nor water in the gutters, grass grows in the chinks of the walls.
-- It did not escape his eyes that not a crumb was wasted in the house, nor that the wine they drank was made from the second pressing; a 莽卢卢15 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 multitude of small things, which it is useless to speak of in detail here, made him burn to distinguish himself, and his ambition to succeed increased tenfold.
-- He had never looked more stupid nor more taken up with his own thoughts than he did at that moment.
-- "He is not an idiot, nor wanting in energy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.
-- But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned un-til he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
-- I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, ap-pear to dismay them.
-- Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will ap-pear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.'
-- He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, EllenO'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed Frenchwoman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their justpunishment for any infringement of decorum.
-- True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well inother men.
-- Too often she had surprised him when his eyes wereneither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
-- He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
-- "I don't know what possessed me, Joe," I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; "but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards Jacks; and I wish my boots weren't so thick nor my hands so coarse."
-- But she neither asked me where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting; and there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.
-- Chanticleer observ-ing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet's toes.
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