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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
-- A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
-- But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
-- For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be an albatross.
-- Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither his father nor his mother will ever interfere with him.
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark--in the dark!
-- But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
-- The Jew wiped his forehead: and smiled, as if it were a relief to have the disturbance over; but neither he, nor Sikes, nor the dog, nor the boys, seemed to consider it in any other light than a common occurance incidental to business.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pe-dantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
-- 'I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,' cried Elizabeth; 'I am NOT a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.'
-- She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of be-ing carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.
-- To Catherine and Lydia, neither the letter nor its writ-er were in any degree interesting.
-- Mr. Bennet in-deed said little; but the ladies were ready enough to talk, and Mr. Collins seemed neither in need of encouragement, nor inclined to be silent himself.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimo-ny to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
-- But as it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, nor learned to do any.
-- This moment my former notions of deliverance darted into my thoughts, for now I found I was likely to have a little ship at my command; and my master being gone, I prepared to furnish myself, not for fishing business, but for a voyage; though I knew not, neither did I so much as con-sider, whither I should steer - anywhere to get out of that place was my desire.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Call yourself any names you like, but I am neither a ras-cal nor a wretch and I don't choose to be called so.'
-- They were neither many nor heavy, but that made no difference to her.
-- Neither said a word, but they hugged one another close, in spite of the blankets, and everything was forgiven and forgotten in one hearty kiss.
-- All eyes turned toward the bridal party, and a murmur of amazement went through the throng, for neither bride nor groom removed their masks.
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
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