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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either he or me has got to get out of Digam, that's a cinch, and it won't be me!"
-- He was fatherly; almost he made Martin repent; but he concluded, "And as for Clawson, his 'joke' regarding this Benoni Carr person--and why I never looked the fellow up is beyond me, I suppose I was too busy--his 'joke,' as you call it, was the action either of an idiot or a blackguard, and until you are able to perceive that fact, I don't think you will be ready to come back to us."
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
-- He was a man who never merely talked: he either bubbled or made orations.
-- They all belonged to the Congregational Sunday School, and to either the Y.W.C.A.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, there is no great love either on his side, or on hers, but Dounia is a clev-er girl and has the heart of an angel, and will make it her duty to make her husband happy who on his side will make her happiness his care.
-- Nor has either Dounia or I breathed a word to him of the great hopes we have of his helping us to pay for your university studies; we have not spoken of it in the first place, because it will come to pass of itself, later on, and he will no doubt without wasting words offer to do it of himself, (as though he could refuse Dounia that) the more readily since you may by your own efforts be-come his right hand in the office, and receive this assistance 58 Crime and Punishmentnot as a charity, but as a salary earned by your own work.
-- Either his senses were peculiarly keen (which it is difficult to suppose), or the sound was really very distinct.
-- Here, you've been ringing and pulling at the door and still they don't open!So either they've both fainted or 芒聙娄' 'What?'
-- You must either pay it, with all expenses, costs and so on, or give a written declaration when you can pay it, and at the same time an undertaking not to leave the capital without pay-ment, and nor to sell or conceal your property.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- 'Cookery would have been moreto the purpose, if you had had any practical ideas of life, either ofyou.'
-- 'You'll make yourself ill,' said Miss Betsey, 'and you know that will not be good either for you or for my goddaughter.
-- I was in the middle statebetween sleeping and waking, either then or immediatelyafterwards; for, as he resumed- it was a real fact that he hadstopped playing- I saw and heard the same old woman ask Mrs.Fibbitson if it wasn't delicious (meaning the flute), to which Mrs.Fibbitson replied, 'Ay, ay!yes!'
-- He enjoyed my placard so much, that he saved me from theembarrassment of either disclo- sure or concealment, by presentingme to every other boy who came back, great or small, immediatelyon his arrival, in this form of introduction, 'Look here!Here's agame!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- There was not a dissentient voice on the subject, either when Mrs. Perry drank tea with Mrs. and Miss Bates, or when Mrs. and Miss Bates returned the visit.
-- After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
-- She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
-- Compare Mr. Martin with either of them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
-- There is no reason either why I should, as you probably will never have much to do with me."
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