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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, whether it was that they had eaten so many nuts that they could not walk, or whether they were lazy and would not, I do not know: how- ever, they took it into their heads that it did not become them to go home on foot.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I still appeal to my servants round, whether they at any time saw a coach at my door, without knowing what persons were in it.
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
-- He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I after-wards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
-- But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether I was injured or no.
-- I was frequently rallied by the queen upon account of my fearfulness; and she used to ask me whether the people of my country were as great cowards as myself?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such terms Mr. Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
-- Whether I was to do it or not, ma'am, I did it.
-- Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything?
-- 'It's all the same to me what he is or what he is not, whether in English or whether in French,' retorted Mr. E. W. B. Childers, facing about.
-- The only condition (over and above your good behaviour) I make is, that you decide now, at once, whether to accompany me or remain here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not trouble my head much about the matter; whether we were among the combustible carbon, Silurians, or primitive soil, I neither knew nor cared to know.
-- It was impossible to say whether he understood me or not.
-- But whether it is the work of nature or not is of little concern to us.
-- And yet when one came to think the matter over seriously, what mattered it whether the plains and mountains of Iceland were suspended over our devoted heads, or the mighty billows of the Atlantic Ocean?
-- The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it was impossible to know whether or not I was in earnest.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ri-diculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the uni-versities, was ridiculous to a degree.
-- She knew that he didn't mind whether she were demi-vierge or demi-monde, so long as he didn't absolutely know, and wasn't made to see.
-- And so with most of the matters of ordinary life...how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have 'affairs'.
-- Mick sat on tenterhooks, leaning forward in his chair, glaring at her almost hysterically: and whether he was more anxious out of vanity for her to say Yes!or whether he was more panic-stricken for fear she SHOULD say Yes! who can tell?
-- Clifford seemed to care very much whether his stories were considered first-class literature or not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not for me to say whether there was any great disparity in such a match.
-- And now, Mr Clennam, perhaps I may ask you whether you have yet come to a decision where to go next?'
-- And yet it would have been as difficult as ever to say, positively, whether she avoided the rest, or was avoided.
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