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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Neither one thing nor the other," said the Voice.
-- And after that, as his peculiar qualities allowed, he passed out of human perceptions altogether, and he was neither heard, seen, nor felt in Iping any more.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor you either!'
-- Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods.
-- His face came forward and peered at my nails, came for-ward into the light of the opening of the hut and I saw with a quivering disgust that it was like the face of neither man nor beast, but a mere shock of grey hair, with three shadowy over-archings to mark the eyes and mouth.
-- Not all living flesh is painful; nor is all nerve, not even all sensory nerve.
-- Plants do not feel pain, nor the lower animals; it's possible that such ani-mals as the starfish and crayfish do not feel pain at all.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,' said Mother Wolf.
-- Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out thus!Go!'
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- 'Baloo, thou hast neither memory nor respect.
-- And yet they never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
-- There was one man, however, who, by his coun-tenance and actions, formed a marked exception to those who composed the latter class of spectators, being neither idle, nor seemingly very ignorant.
-- The flush which still lingered above the pines in the west-ern sky was not more bright nor delicate than the bloom on her cheek; nor was the opening day more cheering than the animated smile which she bestowed on the youth, as he assisted her into the saddle.
-- And yet there was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular, and dignified and surpassingly beautiful.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate.
-- Nor with such a man could you expect the appeal to conscience to be effective.
-- It was a slow smile, starting and sometimes ending in the eyes; it was very sensual, neither cruel nor kindly, but suggested rather the inhuman glee of the satyr.
-- Neither Strickland nor his wife spoke.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them.
-- Chapter 349 Those whom the hurricane had just thrown on this coast were neither aeronauts by profession nor amateurs.
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