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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's just a bottle, neither more nor less, that the fellow has got in his inside, and couldn't digest," said another of the crew.
-- "Yes, but unfortunately there are whole lines wanting," said the Major, "and we have neither the name of the ship nor the place where she was shipwrecked."
-- We have not the slightest indication of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened."
-- Nor did she mention the probable captivity of Captain Grant among the Indians of South America.
-- But though he had not yet opened his mouth, he gave one the impression of being a great talker, and moreover, one of those absent folks who neither see though they are looking, nor hear though they are listening.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- Nor can it be denied that many of the family have been un-happy in their deaths, which have been sudden, bloody, and mysterious.
-- The German was sent for but professed to know noth-ing of the matter, nor could any inquiry clear it up.
-- The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They've treated me like a dog!I've been ill of fever at Pskoff the whole time, and not a line, nor farthing of money, have I received from my mother or my confounded brother!'
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- 'Oh, indeed!Then it is perhaps as well that I neither DID invite you, nor DO invite you now.
-- She would not marry the latter, she said, until she felt persuaded that neither on his part nor on the part of his family did there exist any sort of concealed suspicions as to herself.
-- At first he had wagged his head and wondered how it was that the children understood what I told them so well, and could not learn from him; and he laughed like anything when I replied that neither he nor I could teach them very much, but that THEY might teach us a good deal.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Old man,' said he, 'let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter.
-- 'The god,' he said, 'is -angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.
-- You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses.
-- They have not raid-ed my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
-- He turned his head over his shoulder to the right, to look at the boots of his interlocutor with a view to comparisons, and lo!where the boots of his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pinocchio gave the jug another look and said neither yes nor no.
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