whether是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. 是否， 会不会， 不管， 无论，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a con-dition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrass-ing explanation.
-- Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist en-shrouded them, he could not tell.
-- Imean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.
-- Do you know whether they've sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there Not the little prize Turkey: the big one.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she died I believe broken-hearted having never slackened her un-availing search for your father, she left you, at two years old, to grow to be blooming, beautiful, and happy, without the dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison, or wasted there through many lingering years.'
-- Whether he knew what had happened, whether he recollected what they had said to him, whether he knew that he was free, were questions which no sagacity could have solved.
-- Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shad-ows of the night were broad and black.
-- Whether or no, I won't be prayed agin, I tell you.
-- That, for these rea-sons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as THEY knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The impostors requested him very courteously to be so good as to come nearer their looms; and then asked him whether the design pleased him, and whether the colors were not very beautiful; at the same time pointing to the empty frames.
-- 'You do not say whether the stuff pleases you.'
-- The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see Andersen's Fairy Taleshow the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.
-- Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him not quite right about the ladies.
-- 48 Andersen's Fairy Tales The copying-clerk turned round and spoke awhile with the man about the reports and legal documents in ques-tion; but when he had finished, and his eye fell again on the Shoes, he was unable to say whether those to the left or those to the right belonged to him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having got rid of the staff captain's widow, Stepan Arkadyevitch took his hat and stopped to recollect whether he had forgotten anything.
-- Whether it was that she had heard his words, or that she did not want to hear them, she made a sort of stumble, twice struck out, and hurriedly skated away from him.
-- You can see by that whether I guess right or wrong," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, gazing at Levin with a subtle smile.
-- "I told you I did not know whether I should be here long...that it depended on you..." She dropped her head lower and lower, not knowing herself what answer she should make to what was coming.
-- Now, whether for good or for ill, Levin could not choose but remain; he must find out what the man was like whom she loved.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner.
-- It was impossible to tell whether the new servant would turn out as absolutely methodical as his master required; experience alone could solve the question.
-- "Well, gentlemen," said he, "I'm off, you see; and, if you will examine my passport when I get back, you will be able to judge whether I have accomplished the journey agreed upon."
-- This methodical record thus contained an account of everything needed, and Mr. Fogg always knew whether he was behind-hand or in advance of his time.
-- He began to ask himself if this bet that Mr. Fogg talked about was not really in good earnest, and whether his fate was not in truth forcing him, despite his love of repose, around the world in eighty days!
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