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：
-- Only he asked himself whether the man was mad, or some heedless rattle pate?
-- I mean to try and succeed where Krick, the missionary so unfortunately failed in 1846; in a word, I want to follow the course of the river Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou, which waters Thibet for a distance of 1500 kilometres, flowing along the northern base of the Himalayas, and to find out at last whether this river does not join itself to the Brahmapoutre in the northeast of As-sam.
-- But whether Paganel could not or would not see it then, two hours later he was forced to yield to ocular evidence or own himself blind.
-- "Beside," resumed Lord Glenarvan, with perfect gravity, "when people are going to the Indies it doesn't matter much whether it is to the East or West."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime?
-- 'I was not sure whether I had left it here or in the Shipping Office.
-- The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him, and on more than one occasion he has asked me whether I had on my medical journeys at night ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound.
-- The one is whether any crime has been committed at all; the second is, what is the crime and how was it committed?
-- You don't seem quite to have made up your mind whether it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His interlocutor burst out laugh-ing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, ' whether he had been cured?'
-- I don't know whether she meant it for a hint that I had come empty-handed, without a present for her birthday, or what,' added Gania, with an unpleasant smile.
-- 'Why, my dear fellow, it's not a question of your rejecting her, it is whether you are prepared to receive her consent joyfully, and with proper satisfaction.
-- I wish to know whether you desire this arrangement or whether you do not?
-- It's a proud face too, terribly proud!And I I can't say whether she is good and kind, or not.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- Consider, therefore, whether or no you will protect me.'
-- The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.
-- Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any ser-vice to him or no.
-- We do not yet know how things are going to be, nor whether the Achaeans are to return with good success or evil.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rarely went abroad by daylight, but at twilight he would go out muffled up invisibly, whether the weather were cold or not, and he chose the loneliest paths and those most overshadowed by trees and banks.
-- Such children as saw him at nightfall dreamt of bogies, and it seemed doubtful whether he disliked boys more than they disliked him, or the reverse; but there was certainly a vivid enough dislike on either side.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But whether he treated it well or ill, it loved nothing so much as to be near him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rann saw that the mon-keys were carrying something, and dropped a few hundred yards to find out whether their load was good to eat.
-- It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him.
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