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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is a question to him whether his hat or his peace of mind is more important."
-- And then she began to cry, bitterly, bitterly weeping: but whether for misery or joy, she never knew.
-- It was true, she did not care whether he gave her money or not, and he knew it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house.
-- I did not know whether to resent this language or pursue my explanation; but he seemed so powerfully affected that I took pity and proceeded with my dreams; affirming I had never heard the appellation of 'Catherine Linton' before, but reading it often over produced an impression which personified itself when I had no longer my imagination under control.
-- 'A good subject to start!And that pretty girl widow, I should like to know her history: whether she be a native of the country, or, as is more probable, an exotic that the surly INDIGENAE will not recognise for kin.'
-- What he meant to do with it, and whether he were mad?
-- 'Throw it,' he replied, standing still, 'and then I'll tell how you boasted that you would turn me out of doors as soon as he died, and see whether he will not turn you out directly.'
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