| 单词 | either |
| 释义 | ei·ther I. 1. < flowers blooming on either side of the walk > 2. < use either foot, no matter which > < you may take either fork of the road > II. 1. archaic a. < at either of the three corners is an exquisite … bust — W.D.Howells > b. < as two yoke devils sworn to either's purpose — Shakespeare > 2. a. < take either of the two routes > b. < three famous talkers … either of whom would illustrate what I say — O.W.Holmes †1935 > — usually sing. in constr. except when a plural (usually after of) intervenes between either and the verb form in which circumstance the verb is often plural in form < of the two forms of address either is appropriate to the situation > < either of them is satisfactory > < either of them are satisfactory > III. 1. — used as a function word before two or more coordinate words, phrases, or clauses joined usually by or to indicate that what immediately follows is the first of two or more alternatives that are equally applicable < that voice, which could be used either as a glaive or as an organ stop — Victoria Sackville-West > < the man did not kill himself either physically or spiritually — E.C.Wagenknecht > < unready, either politically, economically, or militarily — H.E.Gaston > or mutually exclusive < the statement as originally worded must be either true or false > < the population will either die, migrate, or plunge into economic chaos — Herbert Hoover > 2. obsolete IV. 1. < they are the best available and are not expensive either > especially one contradicting a previous affirmation < it's raining. It isn't either > or agreeing with a previous negative statement < I didn't see it. Nor I either > or supplementing one < you'll not go far in life and you won't be happy either — W.J.Reilly > — compare too 2. < who answers for the Irish parliament? or army either? — Robert Browning > < if his father had come or his mother either all would have gone well > |
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