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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I perceived pretty clearly that I had not the stamina either to resist what the captain chose to do to expel me, or to force myself upon Montgomery and his companion.
-- We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.
-- Whatever it was, the Thing either lacked the courage to attack me, or it was waiting to take me at some disadvantage.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge.
-- The undergrowth on either side of him ripped with a noise like torn canvas, and the saplings that he heaved away right and left with his shoulders sprang back again and banged him on the flank, and great trails of creepers, all matted together, hung from his tusks as he threw his head from side to side and plowed out his pathway.
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：
-- They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
-- The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which their fathers dwelt, or altogether from the earth.
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- The stranger regarded his interrogator a moment in won-der; and then, losing every mark of self-satisfaction in an expression of solemn humility, he answered: 'Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: ofdefense, I make none by God's good mercy, having com-mitted no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
-- It was the first opportunity possessed by Duncan and his companions to view the marked lineaments of either of their Indian atten-dants, and each individual of the party felt relieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm; but with-in those everything was snug, happy and well-conditioned.
-- He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic; but had more mischief than ill-will in his composition; and with all his overbear-ing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom.
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：
-- Perhaps he did not talk very much, and I fancied there was towards the end a look of fatigue in the faces of the women on either side of him.
-- "Oh, I never said a word to either of them.
-- He took no notice of either of us.
-- That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
-- After expressions of surprise on either side, hearing that I meant to spend the night in Alexandria, he asked me to dine with him at the English Club.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft did the same on his side, his hands in his pockets, yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time, but really dreading, like his friend, either the escape or destruction of the balloon.
-- Either the engineer had been able to save himself, and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast, or he was lost for ever!The long and painful hours passed by.
-- At any rate, there was only one thing to be done to await the return of Neb and the reporter; but they must give up the feast of hard eggs which they had meant to prepare, and a meal of raw flesh was not an agreeable prospect either for themselves or for the others.
-- Either they had abundant resources from their stranded vessels, in grain, cattle, tools, ammunition, or else some things were thrown up on the coast which supplied them with all the first necessities of life.
-- It would be easy to kill a few of the pigeons which were flying by hundreds about the summit of the plateau, either with sticks or stones.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Quilp's Wharf, Daniel Quilp was a ship-breaker, yet to judge from these appearances he must either have been a ship-breaker on a very small scale, or have broken his ships up very small indeed.
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