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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Teddy's mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged him-self to Teddy's bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.
-- He bit off the tops of the eggs as fast as he could, taking care to crush the young cobras, and turned over the litter from time to time to see whether he had missed any.
-- 'Well,' said Two Tails, rubbing one hind leg against the other, exactly like a little boy saying a poem, 'I don't quite know whether you'd understand.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Hey-ward, undecided whether to give vent to his growing anger, or to laugh in the other's face.
-- 'You are, then, lost,' interrupted the hunter, 'and have found how helpless 'tis not to know whether to take the right hand or the left?'
-- No, no; to me, every Indian who speaks a foreign tongue is an Iroquois, whether the castle* of his tribe be in Canada, or be in York.'
-- The longer his nap lasts the better it will be for him, as I doubt whether he can find a proper cover for such a shape on these rocks; and singing won't do any good with the Iroquois.'
-- he said; 'what mattered it whether he struck the rock living or dead!feeling would soon be over.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then we would speak of this publisher and of that, comparing the generosity of one with the meanness of another; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties or to another who "pushed" a book for all it was worth.
-- Then we would talk of agents and the offers they had obtained for us; of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.
-- I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
-- It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
-- But to my practical mind it remained to be seen whether the passion which obsessed him would be justified of its works.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the density of the atmosphere that they could not be certain whether it was day or night.
-- They were ignorant of what it was, whether an island or a continent, for they did not know to what part of the world the hurricane had driven them.
-- But they must reach this land, whether inhabited or desolate, whether hospitable or not.
-- But they could not in the dark determine whether it was a single island, or connected with others.
-- The question could not at present be decided whether this land formed an island, or whether it belonged to a continent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What do I care whether he is or not?'
-- CHAPTER 5Whether Mr Quilp took any sleep by snatches of a few winks at a time, or whether he sat with his eyes wide open all night long, certain it is that he kept his cigar alight, and kindled every fresh one from the ashes of that which was nearly consumed, without requiring the assistance of a candle.
-- But a few whispered words from her daughter, and a kind inquiry from her son-in-law whether she felt faint, with a hint that there was abundance of cold water in the next apartment, routed these symptoms effectually, and she applied herself to the prescribed preparations with sullen diligence.
-- 'Yes,' said the child, hesitating whether to enter or retreat, for the dwarf just roused, with his dishevelled hair hanging all about him and a yellow handkerchief over his head, was something fearful to behold; it's only me, sir.'
-- Just look out into the yard, and see whether there's a boy standing on his head.'
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