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单词 neither … nor
释义

neither … nor

English

Alternative forms

  • nor … nor

Conjunction

neither … nor

  1. used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy; [] .
    • (Can we date this quote?), Lu, Hsun, “The Grand Finale”, in Yang Hsien-yi; Gladys Yang, transl., Selected Stories of Lu Hsun: The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories, published 2014, →ISBN, OCLC 1081303535, page 134:
      Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.

Derived terms

  • neither fish nor fowl
  • neither here nor there
  • neither a borrower nor a lender be
  • neither hide nor hair

Translations

See also

  • either … or
  • both … and
  • not only … but also

References

  • neither nor nor” (US) / neither nor nor” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
  • neither nor”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  • neither nor” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
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