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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff was requested to return and establish his right to the inheritance and also to decide on the future management of the estates; whether the same system of letting out to the peasants, which prevailed during the lifetime of his mother, was to be continued, or, as the steward had strongly advised the deceased Princess, and now advised the young Prince, to augment the stock and work all the land himself.
-- The justiciary did not turn immediately to the prisoner, because he was at the moment asking his associate in the eye-glasses whether he consented to the questions previously outlined and committed to writing.
-- Whether he received an unpleasant letter from his mother, or was backward in his composition, or felt the ceaseless sadness of youth, it would suffice for him to see her and his spirit resumed its wonted good cheer.
-- He did not know whether to "thou" her or not, and became as red in the face as she was.
-- They kissed each other twice, and seemed to be reflecting whether or not it was necessary to kiss a third time, and having decided, as it were, that it was necessary, they kissed again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot even say whether it ran on all fours, or only with its forearms held very low.
-- I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!I do so wish I could see that bit!I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire.
-- The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.
-- Whether she vanished into the air, or whether she ran quickly into the wood ('and she can run very fast!'
-- What she really wanted to know was, whether it could sting or not, but she thought this wouldn't be quite a civil question to ask.
-- "The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
-- Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print the following important news:Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March 1, 17 Dear Livesey As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
-- Whether he were injured much or little, none could ever tell.
-- What it was, whether bear or man or monkey, I could in no wise tell.
-- "I am not very sure whether he's sane."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never once did he complain of the length or fatigue of a journey, never make an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it might be, or however far away, whether China or Congo.
-- But we will go whether or no; we have got a captain who is pretty wide-awake."
-- Very well!we will see whether it will escape these conical bullets.
-- Whether this person was thirty-five or fifty years of age, I could not say.
-- But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all that was highest, whether in society or in thought or in public action, or even in art, she was at one, she moved among the foremost, at home with them.
-- There they are, whether they exist or no.
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