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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—the coast on either side was low and sandy.
-- But to the question whether a three-mast vessel, called the BRITANNIA, had gone ashore either on the Chilian or Araucanian coast, he gave a decided negative.
-- "Well, my good fellow, both these passes have only one fault; they take us too far out of our route, either north or south."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here we got in, andthough not without much difficulty, got all safe on shore, and walked afterwards on foot to Yarmouth, where, as un-fortunate men, we were used with great humanity, as well by the magistrates of the town, who assigned us good quar-ters, as by particular merchants and owners of ships, and had money given us sufficient to carry us either to London or back to Hull as we thought fit.
-- It happened that he had appointed to go out in this boat, either for pleasure or for fish, with two or three Moors of some distinction in that place, and for whom he had provided extraordinarily, and had, therefore, sent on board the boat overnight a larger store of provisions than ordinary; and had ordered me to get ready three fusees with powder and shot, which were on board his ship, for that they designed some sport of fowling as well as fishing.
-- I knew that all the ships from Europe, which sailed either to the coast of Guinea or to Brazil, or to the East Indies, made this cape, or those islands; and, in a word, I put the whole of my fortune upon this single point, either that I must meet with some ship or must perish.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Dashwood was alike uninfluenced by either consideration.
-- What his mother really is we cannot know; but, from Fanny's occasional mention of her conduct and opinions, we have never been disposed to think her amiable; and I am very much mistaken if Edward is not himself aware that there would be many difficulties in his way, if he were to wish to marry a woman who had not either a great fortune or high rank."
-- The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a scale, and the rent so uncommonly moderate, as to leave her no right of objection on either point; and, therefore, though it was not a plan which brought any charm to her fancy, though it was a removal from the vicinity of Norland beyond her wishes, she made no attempt to dissuade her mother from sending a letter of acquiescence.
-- No difficulty arose on either side in the agreement; and she waited only for the disposal of her effects at Norland, and to determine her future household, before she set off for the west; and this, as she was exceedingly rapid in the performance of everything that interested her, was soon done. The horses which were left her by her husband had been sold soon after his death, and an opportunity now offering of disposing of her carriage, she agreed to sell that likewise at the earnest advice of her eldest daughter.
-- "I do not believe," said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good humoured smile, "that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of MY daughters towards what you call CATCHING him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.
-- Once in the sunlit street, with labourers tramping by in either direction, the horse-cars passing crowded to the rails with the small clerks and floor help in the great wholesale houses, and men and women generally coming out of doors and passing about the neighbourhood, Carrie felt slightly reassured.
-- He had no mental process in him worthy the dignity of either of those terms.
-- The cab plopped along between the far-receding lines of gas lamps on either hand.
-- She was busy adjusting her thoughts and feelings to newer conditions, and was not in danger of suffering disturbing pangs from either quarter.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, she ain't either of them.'
-- 'Well, den, she ain't got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of 'em.
-- But any- way, one thing is proved THESE two ain't either of 'em Wilkses' and he wagged his head towards the king and the duke.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt he had to make up his mind for either one thing or another.
-- As a rule they are either fools or swindlers!
-- Within it sat either a Fox, a Hawk, or a Vulture.
-- He had either to work or to beg.
-- He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
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