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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a slow smile, starting and sometimes ending in the eyes; it was very sensual, neither cruel nor kindly, but suggested rather the inhuman glee of the satyr.
-- Neither of us had seen Strickland for two or three weeks I because I had been busy with friends who were spending a little while in Paris, and Stroeve because, having quarreled with him more violently than usual, he had made up his mind to have nothing more to do with him.
-- Neither Strickland nor his wife spoke.
-- He had shown neither sense nor dignity.
-- Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 349 Those whom the hurricane had just thrown on this coast were neither aeronauts by profession nor amateurs.
-- Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those reporters: a man of great merit, energetic, prompt and ready for anything, full of ideas, having traveled over the whole world, soldier and artist, enthusiastic in council, resolute in action, caring neither for trouble, fatigue, nor danger, when in pursuit of information, for himself first, and then for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts of curious subjects, of the unpublished, of the unknown, and of the impossible.
-- The truth was, that if the prisoners of the Secessionists could not leave the town, neither could the Secessionists themselves while the Northern army invested it.
-- No!the storm did not abate, and neither Jonathan Forster nor his companions dreamed of confronting it in that frail car.
-- A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea- mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But neither oaths, or prayers, nor words, will kill me, and therefore I live, and mean to live.'
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- If the proverb's a good 'un, I suppose it's better to keep to half of it than none; at all events, I'd rather be merry and not wise, than like you, neither one nor t'other.'
-- The truth is and, as there is no accounting for tastes, even a taste so strange as this may be recorded without being looked upon as a wilful and malicious invention the truth is that neither Mrs Wackles nor her eldest daughter had at any time greatly favoured the pretensions of Mr Swiveller, being accustomed to make slight mention of him as 'a gay young man' and to sigh and shake their heads ominously whenever his name was mentioned.
-- CHAPTER 10Daniel Quilp neither entered nor left the old man's house, unobserved.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- 'Baloo, thou hast neither memory nor respect.
-- Neither Baloo nor Bagheera will be able to hunt with pleasure for many days.'
-- Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before even he had shift-ed his position, there was not an elephant in sight except Kala Nag, Pudmini, and the elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had gone.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the inci-dents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to re-tain.
-- There was one man, however, who, by his coun-tenance and actions, formed a marked exception to those who composed the latter class of spectators, being neither idle, nor seemingly very ignorant.
-- And yet there was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular, and dignified and surpassingly beautiful.
-- If you would save these tender blossoms from the fangs of the worst of serpents, gentle-man, you have neither time to lose nor resolution to throw away!'
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
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