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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Boldwood women had been remote phenomena rather than necessary complements comets of such uncertain aspect, movement, and permanence, that whether their orbits were as geometrical, unchangeable, and as subject to laws as his own, or as absolutely erratic as they superficially appeared, he had not deemed it his duty to consider.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
-- It was easy, of course, to find out whether Goriot had really been a vermicelli manufacturer; the amount of his fortune was readily discoverable; but the old people, who were most inquisitive as to his concerns, never went beyond the limits of the Quarter, and lived in the lodging-house much as oysters cling to a rock.
-- He meant to know whether this Goriot was really the Goriot that he knew.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether he had died or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria was not known.
-- It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the out-ward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my in-quiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
-- I doubted at first whether I should attempt the cre-ation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first suc-cess to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complete and wonderful as man.
-- It was to be de-cided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full of innocence and joy, the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.
-- You have left me no power to consider whether I am just to you or not.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, thought Scarlett, Pa will know whether this awful story is true.
-- Her heart was too sore to care whether or not she put her father in a temper.
-- His thunderous predictions of immediate war and his rhetorical questions as to whether the Southwould stand for further insults from the Yankees only produced faintly bored, "Yes, Papas" and "No, Pas."
-- Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to rideand in that expectation put on her habit upon arising.
-- But Mrs. Tarleton was, as usual, deaf to all other ideaswhen pursuing her favorite topic, breeding, whether it be horses or humans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now lookee here," he said, "the question being whether you're to be let to live.
-- It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too.
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
-- Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.
-- I have never been absolutely certain whether I uttered a shrill yell of terror, merely in spirit, or in the bodily hearing of the company.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.
-- Then the king called for the princesses, and asked them whether what the soldier said was true: and when they saw that they were discovered, and that it was of no use to deny what had happened, they confessed it all.
-- The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: 'We will not so much as touch one fly's leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!'
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