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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The comparison holds good!Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
-- The half-obliterated inscription on the pedestal beneath determines the date of 莽卢卢 2 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on his return to Paris in 1777: "Whoe'er thou art, thy master see; He is, or was, or ought to be."
-- It might be possible to describe it if some one should discover a process by which to distil from the atmosphere all the nauseating elements with which it is charged by the 莽卢卢 3 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 catarrhal exhalations of every individual lodger, young or old.
-- In a corner stands a box containing a set of numbered pigeon-holes, in which the lodgers' table napkins, more or less soiled and stained with wine, are kept.
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
-- If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never.
-- I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know you two don't care about being expelled, or Tom either," she said.
-- The Yankees may be scared of us, but after theway General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand brandedas cowards before the whole world.
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
-- She was hot-tempered and easily plagued bythe frequent scrapes of her four sons, and while no one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, she felt that a licknow and then didn't do the boys any harm.
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!"
-- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HANS IN LUCK ome men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do Scomes right all that falls to them is so much gain all their geese are swans all their cards are trumps toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
-- I know nothing of where 14 Grimms' Fairy Talesthe pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire's for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my pig and give me the goose.'
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