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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Take care of this handsome coach of mine, Nor dirty my pretty red wheels so fine!
-- When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.
-- Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever will I leave you.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
-- '4th, As he walks the said roads, he shall take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving 45subjects, their horses, or carriages, nor take any of our sub-jects into his hands without their own consent.
-- The animosities between these two par-ties run so high, that they will neither eat, nor drink, nor 51talk with each other.
-- I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,' continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking; 'they can't be alwayth a working, nor yet they can't be alwayth a learning.
-- 'Nor going t'other way, neither, 't seems to me, Rachael?'
-- What harmony, besides her age and her simplicity, surrounded her, he did not know, but even in this fantastic action there was a something neither out of time nor place: a something which it seemed as if nobody else could have made as serious, or done with such a natural and touching air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I certainly could not tell him, nor did he expect me to--his conversation being uniformly answered by himself.
-- Until I discover the meaning of this sentence I will neither eat nor sleep."
-- He neither thought of eating nor drinking.
-- "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the earth's interior.
-- Your portmanteau is not packed--my papers are not in order--the precious tailor has not brought my clothes, nor my gaiters--the key of my carpet bag is gone!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Connie wondered what else they had: certainly neither eyes nor minds.
-- And he was neither liked nor disliked by the people: he was just part of things, like the pit-bank and Wragby itself.
-- And yet I neither marry nor run after women.
-- He was never really warm, nor even kind, only thoughtful, considerate, in a well-bred, cold sort of way!But never warm as a man can be warm to a woman, as even Connie's father could be warm to her, with the warmth of a man who did himself well, and intended to, but who still could comfort it woman with a bit of his masculine glow.
-- Hilda only glowered at him without replying; repartee was not her forte, nor Connie's; so she glowered, and he was much more uncomfortable than if she had said things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor yet your mother.'
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