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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
-- He did raise his eyebrows, however, when he found that my friend had neither any luggage nor any explanations for its ab-sence.
-- Mrs. Lyons knew neither of these things, but had been impressed by the death occur-ring at the time of an uncancelled appointment which was only known to him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- 'Oh, indeed!Then it is perhaps as well that I neither DID invite you, nor DO invite you now.
-- She would not marry the latter, she said, until she felt persuaded that neither on his part nor on the part of his family did there exist any sort of concealed suspicions as to herself.
-- At first he had wagged his head and wondered how it was that the children understood what I told them so well, and could not learn from him; and he laughed like anything when I replied that neither he nor I could teach them very much, but that THEY might teach us a good deal.
-- Neither one nor the other seemed to give expression to her full thoughts.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The god,' he said, 'is -angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.
-- You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses.
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
-- Further-more I say and lay my saying to your heart I shall fight neither you nor any man about this girl, for those that take were those also that gave.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
-- As they came up the cellar steps they both, it was afterwards ascertained, fancied they heard the front door open and shut, but seeing it closed and nothing there, neither said a word to the other about it at the time.
-- He turned his head over his shoulder to the right, to look at the boots of his interlocutor with a view to comparisons, and lo!where the boots of his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots.
-- And after that, as his peculiar qualities allowed, he passed out of human perceptions altogether, and he was neither heard, seen, nor felt in Iping any more.
-- He looked neither to the right nor the left, but his dilated eyes stared straight downhill to where the lamps were being lit, and the people were crowded in the street.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods.
-- His face came forward and peered at my nails, came for-ward into the light of the opening of the hut and I saw with a quivering disgust that it was like the face of neither man nor beast, but a mere shock of grey hair, with three shadowy over-archings to mark the eyes and mouth.
-- 'I can neither see nor hear anything of him,' he said.
-- I thought some drink might revive him; but there was neither drink nor vessel in which to bring drink at hand.
-- Suddenly a great white bird flew up out of the boat, and neither of the men stirred nor noticed it; it circled round, and then came sweeping overhead with its strong wings outspread.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,' said Mother Wolf.
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