| 单词 | neither |
| 释义 | nei·ther I. a. < made two suggestions and neither was accepted > b. < neither of the three men stood up — Luke Short > — usually sing. in constr. except when a periphrastic genitive intervenes between neither and the verb form in which circumstance the verb is often plural in form < neither of them were in — John Galsworthy > — often qualified by a periphrastic genitive and used in apposition with a plural pronominal subject to emphasize the exclusion of each of the individuals included in the subject from the thing predicated < we neither of us moved — Wendy Wood > < two English painters who are neither of them abstract or surrealist — Geoffrey Grigson > II. 1. — used as a function word before two or more coordinate words, phrases, or clauses now joined usually by nor or sometimes by or or archaically by neither to indicate that what immediately follows is the first of two or more alternatives both or all of which are rejected < neither my father nor I were by nature inclined to faith in the unintelligible — George Santayana > 2. < just as the serf was not permitted to leave the land, so neither was his offspring — G.G.Coulton > < an illiterate author cannot get very far, and neither can a musical composer who has not learned musical notation — Thomas Munro > < justice is neither new nor old — Mark Van Doren > < sat at bare tables and neither ate, drank, nor smoked — Mary Cable > < neither by day nor by night > < we believe neither in prescribing or proscribing books — Publisher's Weekly > < this court neither approves or condemns any legislative policy — O.J.Roberts > III. < on neither side of the street are there any trees > IV. chiefly dialect < others speak so fast and sputter that they are not to be understood neither — Earl of Chesterfield > |
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