neither是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 两者都不pron. 两者都不ad. 也不,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Taillefer felt attracted, perhaps unconsciously, by the strength of the one man, and the good looks of the other; her stolen glances and secret thoughts were divided between them; but neither of them seemed to take any notice of her, although some day a chance might alter her position, and she would be a wealthy heiress.
-- La Michonnette and Poiret have neither of them stirred.
-- But you must be neither the one nor the other.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states pos-sessed attractions for me.
-- Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its in-habitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.
-- So soon as he had finished, the youth began, not to play, but to utter sounds that were monotonous, and neither resembling the harmo-ny of the old man's instrument nor the songs of the birds; I since found that he read aloud, but at that time I knew nothing of the science of words or letters.
-- 'I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered ar-ticulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.
-- He saw my change of feeling and continued, 'If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses normules.
-- She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, EllenO'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed Frenchwoman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their justpunishment for any infringement of decorum.
-- He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them.
-- He looked on lifeand was neither heartened nor saddened.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
-- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
-- But she neither asked me where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting; and there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her.
-- Neither did she ever give me any money,--or anything but my daily dinner,--nor ever stipulate that I should be paid for my services.
-- When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.
-- When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.
-- When the king saw the blood on her apron, he believed this, fell into such a passion that he ordered a high tower to be built, in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put into it, and walled up.
-- It was covered, however, and even the ser-vant did not know what was in it, neither did anyone know, for the king never took off the cover to eat of it until he was quite alone.
-- Then the king put in a word, and said, 'Each of you is right; and as all cannot have the young lady, the best way is for neither of you to have her: for the truth is, there is some-body she likes a great deal better.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
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