or是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. 或， 或者(表示选择) ； 即， 大约； 否则，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The squareness of his head and a reasonable breadth of shoulders saved him from any appearance of effeminacy or of that querulous timidity which artistic young gentlemen call Sensitiveness.
-- A year or two--a decade or two--a century or two--they were all the same to the plodding doctor in the bee-murmuring town.
-- It was said that he could create life in the laboratory, that he could talk to the monkeys which he inoculated, that he had been driven out of Germany as a devil-worshiper or an anarchist, and that he secretly drank real champagne every evening at dinner.
-- But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure- burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.
-- I'll show old Gottlieb, damn him!Some day I'll discover the germ of cancer or something, and then he'll look foolish in the face!.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fits occurred three or four times a year and were more fre-quent in periods of great strain.
-- Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
-- Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speak-ing into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.
-- It was a different matter when he met with acquaintances or with former fellow stu-dents, whom, indeed, he disliked meeting at any time.
-- Three or four door-keepers were employed on the building.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
-- I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or 'thereby,' as they say inScotland.
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
-- I have a great regard for you and Emma; but when it comes to the question of depen-dence or independence! At any rate, it must be better to 10 Emmahave only one to please than two.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
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