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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They say, 'Oh, sure, science is all right in its way; helps a doc to treat his patients,' and then they begin to argue about whether they can make more money if they locate in a big city or a town, and is it better for a young doc to play the good-fellow and lodge game, or join the church and look earnest.
-- Gottlieb had twice to ask him whether he had prepared the new batch of medium, and Gottlieb was an autocrat, sterner with his favorites than with the ruck of students.
-- He was determined that he would not love it and, as he probably had no sense of humor whatever, it is doubtful whether he appreciated it, but its differentness aroused him.
-- He sat alone and helpless while she again turned on Leora and ever more brightly inquired whether Leora knew this son of a corporation lawyer and that famous debutante, this hatshop and that club.
-- "Madeline!Brought you two together because-- Don't know whether you cotton to each other or not, but I wish you could, because I've-- I'm not making any excuses for myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- but then he expressed doubts whether your studies at the university would leave you time for work at his office.
-- 'No, mother, no, Dounia, you won't deceive me!and then they apologise for not asking my advice and for taking the decision without me!I dare say!They imagine it is arranged now and can't be broken off; but we will see whether it can or not!A magnificent excuse: 'Pyotr Petro-vitch is such a busy man that even his wedding has to be in post-haste, almost by express.'
-- I should like to know whether Mr. Luzhin has any orders of merit; I bet he has the Anna in his buttonhole and that he puts it on when he goes to dine with contractors or merchants.
-- He could never recollect whether he had been thinking about anything at that time.
-- The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he did not yet feel able to decide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing canshow better than my history whether that prediction was verifiedor falsified by the result.
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
-- I wonder whether theycalled in Mr. Chillip, and he was in vain; and if so, how he likes tobe reminded of it once a week.
-- Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentlemanagain, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before hereappeared, I cannot recall.
-- I was very much surprised that Mr. Peggotty was not Ham's father,and began to wonder whether I was mistaken about hisrelationship to anybody else there.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only doubt whether he will ever take us anywhere else.
-- A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of per-son to raise my curiosity.
-- I do not know whether he has any design of ingratiating himself with either of us, Harriet, by additional softness, but it strikes me that his manners are softer than they used to be.
-- No hus-bands and wives,' with so interesting a consciousness, that Emma began to consider whether she had not better leave them together at once.
-- For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, 'I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Indeed, I hadn't time to think before starting whether I wanted to marry or not, for you'd have been gone over the hill."
-- He turned to an opening in the hedge, which he found to be a gate, and mounting thereon, he sat meditating whether to seek a cheap lodging in the village, or to ensure a cheaper one by lying under some hay or corn-stack.
-- She scarcely knew whether most to be amused at the singularity of the meeting, or to be concerned at its awkwardness.
-- "But, you see, I wasn't so much to blame, for them J's and E's be such trying sons o' witches for the memory to mind whether they face backward or forward; and I always had such a forgetful memory, too."
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