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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's just a bottle, neither more nor less, that the fellow has got in his inside, and couldn't digest," said another of the crew.
-- "Yes, but unfortunately there are whole lines wanting," said the Major, "and we have neither the name of the ship nor the place where she was shipwrecked."
-- But though he had not yet opened his mouth, he gave one the impression of being a great talker, and moreover, one of those absent folks who neither see though they are looking, nor hear though they are listening.
-- "Oh, they are neither lofty nor interesting, my Lord, and, beside, they have been described already."
-- Glenarvan, however, would not allow himself to be disheartened; he went back to Talcahuano, and spared neither pains nor expense to make a thorough investigation of the whole seaboard.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet such was the fright I had taken of the Moors, and the dreadful apprehensions I had of falling into their hands, that I would not stop, or go on shore, or come to an anchor; the wind continuing fair till I had sailed in that manner five days; and then the wind shifting to the southward, I con-cluded also that if any of our vessels were in chase of me, they also would now give over; so I ventured to make to the coast, and came to an anchor in the mouth of a little riv-er, I knew not what, nor where, neither what latitude, what country, what nation, or what river.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew; but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest.
-- But he was neither fitted by abilities nor disposition to answer the wishes of his mother and sister, who longed to see him distinguished as they hardly knew what.
-- She knew that his mother neither behaved to him so as to make his home comfortable at present, nor to give him any assurance that he might form a home for himself, without strictly attending to her views for his aggrandizement.
-- She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
-- They would see, he said, only one gentleman there besides himself; a particular friend who was staying at the park, but who was neither very young nor very gay.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither was wise enough to be sure of the working of the mind of the other.
-- Neither of them knew exactly what.
-- Neither had she before known the nature and appearance of the shop girls with whom she now compared poorly.
-- There were, in the last place, a few good followers, neither rich nor poor, famous, nor yet remarkably successful, with whom he was friendly on the score of good-fellowship.
-- She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We hadn't ever been this rich before in neither of our lives.
-- We neither of us could keep still.
-- 'Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get a sea bath.'
-- Neither did that oth-er fellow.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pinocchio looked at the jug and said neither yes nor no.
-- Pinocchio gave the jug another look and said neither yes nor no.
-- The thought that in a few hours they would reach a country where there were no schools, no books, no teachers, made these boys so happy that they felt neither hunger, nor thirst, nor sleep, nor discomfort.
-- He tried the straw, but, as he chewed away at it, he noticed to his great disappointment that it tasted neither like rice nor like macaroni.
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