either是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 也(不) pron. 两者之一a. (两者中) 任一的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand.
-- Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person in-dividually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas.
-- I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.
-- 'No,' said a great fat man with a monstrous chin,' I don't know much about it, either way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not one of the three could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hid-den under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes of the body, of his two companions.
-- 'I received a letter from the Bank, sir, yesterday, inform-ing me that some intelligence or discovery ' 'The word is not material, miss; either word will do.'
-- Good-humoured looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong res-olution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.
-- Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side.
-- 'Does he resemble either of these two passengers?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes.
-- in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; be-cause, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office.
-- 'I either behold a fata morgana, or I am regularly tipsy,' whimpered out the Councillor.
-- As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on rail-roads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
-- The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, 'Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age"; the others were either blind, had with-ered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude.
-- Her success in society had been greater than that of either of her elder sisters, and greater even than her mother had anticipated.
-- The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns--the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service--had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nordston had not a chance of chaffing Levin.
-- "Yes, there were reasons why he could not help being either particularly happy or particularly unhappy."
-- A guard, either dunk or too much muffled up in the bitter frost, had not heard the train moving back, and had been crushed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
-- He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet.
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- Provisions were purchased at Kholby, and, while Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg took the howdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them.
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