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：
-- Not a cloud visible either above or below.
-- We need it anyway, either to prolong our search or continue our route."
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：
-- 'So that to reach the Yew Alley one either has to come down it from the house or else to enter it by the moor-gate?'
-- 'Well, either that boot comes back before sundown or I'll see the manager and tell him that I go right straight out of this hotel.'
-- Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
-- The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.
-- A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Basker-villes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His conclusion was that one of two things must be the explanation either that this was a begging impostor, or that the prince, if prince he were, was simply a fool, without the slightest ambition; for a sensible prince with any ambition would certainly not wait about in ante-rooms with servants, and talk of his own private affairs like this.
-- In either case, how was he to announce this singular visitor?
-- But read to that same soldier his death-sentence, and he will either go mad or burst into tears.
-- No, I don't think I have either tal-ents or special abilities of any kind; on the contrary.
-- For a man of Totski's wealth and standing, it would, of course, have been the simplest possible matter to take steps which would rid him at once from all annoyance; while it was obviously impossible for Nastasia Philipovna to harm him in any way, either legally or by stirring up a scandal, for, in case of the latter danger, he could so easily remove her to a sphere of safety.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may of-fer sacrifice and appease the the anger of the god.'
-- With what heart can any of the Achaeans do your bidding, either on foray or in open fighting?
-- I am older than either of you; therefore be guided by me.
-- You are a coward and no soldier; you are nobody either in fight or council; we cannot all be kings; it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the sceptre of sovereignty over you all.'
-- I tell you, therefore and it shall surely be that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assem-bly till you go blubbering back to the ships.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such children as saw him at nightfall dreamt of bogies, and it seemed doubtful whether he disliked boys more than they disliked him, or the reverse; but there was certainly a vivid enough dislike on either side.
-- Another school of opinion followed Mr. Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald view or some modification of it; as, for instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to assert that "if he choses to show enself at fairs he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to the man with the one talent.
-- He does not appear to have been either very much frightened or very greatly surprised at the moment.
-- Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things.
-- I saw pretty clearly this was a transient mood, due to overwork and want of sleep, and that either by drugs or rest it would be possible to recover my energies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red-haired man gave a yawp of exultation and stood staggering, and as it seemed to me in serious danger of either going back-wards down the companion hatchway or forwards upon his victim.
-- He took not the slightest notice of either of us.
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