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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the ‘balance-fish,' or hammer-headed shark, if I am not much mistaken.
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- There is ZWEI, which means TWO, and ATROSEN or MATROSEN, the German for SAILORS."
-- Bring them assistance, or they are lost."
-- And yet he was not a man behind the times, and there was nothing little or narrow-minded about him; but while always keeping open his ancestral county to progress, he was a true Scotchman at heart, and it was for the honor of Scotland that he competed in the yacht races of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick.
-- If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
-- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime?
-- 'I was not sure whether I had left it here or in the Shipping Office.
-- 'From one or two friends there on the occasion of my marriage.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- He seemed to have no suspicion of any impertinence or inappropriateness in the fact of such questions being put to him.
-- observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servil-ity if not of absolute alarm: 'what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin hereditary honourable citizen who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- They've treated me like a dog!I've been ill of fever at Pskoff the whole time, and not a line, nor farthing of money, have I received from my mother or my confounded brother!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- If I have ever decked your temple with gar-lands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.'
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- Consider, therefore, whether or no you will protect me.'
-- He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamem-non has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The poor soul's had an accident or an op'ration or somethin'," said Mrs. Hall.
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minutes he was audible pacing the room.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
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