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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wouldn't move a step quicker, or slower, whether he walked upstairs to bed or mounted a breach.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened, being in company with some merchants and planters of my acquaintance, and talking of those things very earnestly, three of them came to me next morn-ing, and told me they had been musing very much upon what I had discoursed with them of the last night, and they came to make a secret proposal to me; and, after enjoining me to secrecy, they told me that they had a mind to fit out a ship to go to Guinea; that they had all plantations as well as I, and were straitened for nothing so much as servants; that as it was a trade that could not be carried on, because they could not publicly sell the negroes when they came home, so they desired to make but one voyage, to bring the negroes on shore privately, and divide them among their own plantations; and, in a word, the question was whether I would go their supercargo in the ship, to manage the trad-ing part upon the coast of Guinea; and they offered me that I should have my equal share of the negroes, without pro-viding any part of the stock.
-- We knew nothing where we were, or upon what land it was we were driven - whether an island or the main, whether inhabited or not inhabited.
-- What the shore was, whether rock or sand, whether steep or shoal, we knew not.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He earnestly pressed her, after giving the particulars of the house and garden, to come with her daughters to Barton Park, the place of his own residence, from whence she might judge, herself, whether Barton Cottage, for the houses were in the same parish, could, by any alteration, be made comfortable to her.
-- In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.
-- She was full of jokes and laughter, and before dinner was over had said many witty things on the subject of lovers and husbands; hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex, and pretended to see them blush whether they did or not.
-- To the former her raillery was probably, as far as it regarded only himself, perfectly indifferent; but to the latter it was at first incomprehensible; and when its object was understood, she hardly knew whether most to laugh at its absurdity, or censure its impertinence, for she considered it as an unfeeling reflection on the colonel's advanced years, and on his forlorn condition as an old bachelor.
-- Sir John called on them as soon as the next interval of fair weather that morning allowed him to get out of doors; and Marianne's accident being related to him, he was eagerly asked whether he knew any gentleman of the name of Willoughby at Allenham.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know whether you can or not.
-- I mean I don't know whether I can.
-- Carrie stood waiting a moment, hardly certain whether the interview had terminated.
-- When Carrie had returned home, flushed with her first success and ready, for all her weariness, to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement, the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare.
-- Minnie pondered a while, not upon whether she could or would go-- for that point was already negatively settled with her--but upon some means of diverting the thoughts of her sister to some other topic.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, you'd HAVE to come when he rubbed it, whether you wanted to or not.'
-- I got so full of it I didn't notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was asleep or drownded.
-- She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generly, but she'd wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn't know whether she could throw true now.
-- So we talked it over all one night, drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds whether to drop the watermelons, or the cantelopes, or the mushmelons, or what.
-- We talked about Cairo, and wondered whether we would know it when we got to it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are sent to school, and whether they want to or not, they must study.
-- He looked over the waters to see whether he might catch sight of a boat with a little man in it.
-- This said, he took the path at so swift a gait that he seemed to fly, and at every small sound he heard, he turned in fear to see whether the Terrible Shark, five stories high and with a train in his mouth, was following him.
-- A man, remember, whether rich or poor, should do something in this world.
-- Poor Pinocchio, whether he liked it or not, had to learn all these wonderful things; but it took him three long months and cost him many, many lashings before he was pronounced perfect.
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