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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Giving but few minutes to my meals, but a few hours to sleep, indifferent to either rain or sunshine, I did not leave the poop of the vessel.
-- "Of course; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat."
-- If slanted, the Nautilus, according to this inclination, and under the influence of the screw, either sinks diagonally or rises diagonally as it suits me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one could put her down, no one could make mock of her, because she stood among the first, and those that were against her were below her, either in rank, or in wealth, or in high association of thought and progress and understanding.
-- What has Mr So-and-so to do with his own name? and what have I to do with either him or his name?"
-- It was always the same between them; always their talk brought them into a deadly nearness of contact, a strange, perilous intimacy which was either hate or love, or both.
-- The train came, and they went on board, sitting on either side a little table, by the window, in the restaurant car.
-- Her appearance was simple and complete, really beautiful, because of her regularity and form, her soft dark hair falling full and level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the simple, rich-coloured smock hanging on her slender shoulders.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears or render my hilarity audible.
-- I was not going there: we were journeying to hear the famous Jabez Branderham preach, from the text 'Seventy Times Seven;' and either Joseph, the preacher, or I had committed the 'First of the Seventy First,' and were to be publicly exposed and excommunicated.
-- I had remarked on one side of the road, at intervals of six or seven yards, a line of upright stones, continued through the whole length of the barren: these were erected and daubed with lime on purpose to serve as guides in the dark, and also when a fall, like the present, confounded the deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path: but, excepting a dirty dot pointing up here and there, all traces of their existence had vanished: and my companion found it necessary to warn me frequently to steer to the right or left, when I imagined I was following, correctly, the windings of the road.
-- CHAPTER 4 WHAT vain weathercocks we are!I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.
-- However, having studied for an interval, with a fist on either knee, and a cloud of meditation over her ruddy countenance, she ejaculated 'Ah, times are greatly changed since then!
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