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either 音標拼音: ['iðɚ] ['ɑɪðɚ] a. 任一,兩方的
pron. 任一,隨便任一個
conj. 或,也 任一,兩方的任一,隨便任一個或,也 either任一 either adv 1: after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like ` likewise' or ` also'; " he isn' t stupid, but he isn' t exactly a genius either"; " I don' t know either"; " if you don' t order dessert I won' t either" Either \ Ei" ther\ ([= e]"[ th][~ e] r or [ imac]"[ th][~ e] r; 277), a. & pron. [ OE. either, aither, AS. [= ae] g[ eth] er, [= ae] ghw[ ae][ eth] er ( akin to OHG. [= e] ogiwedar, MHG. iegeweder); [= a] ge hw[ ae][ eth] er whether. See { Each}, and { Whether}, and cf. { Or}, conj.] 1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one. [ 1913 Webster] Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. -- Holmes. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. [ 1913 Webster] His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] On either side . . . was there the tree of life. -- Rev. xxii. 2. [ 1913 Webster] The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. -- Jowett ( Thucyd). [ 1913 Webster]
Either \ Ei" ther\, conj. Either precedes two, or more, co[" o] rdinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or. [ 1913 Webster] Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. -- 1 Kings xviii. 27. [ 1913 Webster] Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. -- Latham. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Either was formerly sometimes used without any correlation, and where we should now use or. [ 1913 Webster] Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? -- James iii. 12. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " either": a certain, a deux, an, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, atomic, aught, both, correspondingly, exclusive, for two, identically, in kind, in like manner, in that way, individual, indivisible, integral, irreducible, like, like that, like this, likewise, lone, monadic, monistic, one, similarly, simple, single, singular, so, sole, solid, solitary, tete- a- tete, the two, thus, unanalyzable, undivided, uniform, unique, unitary, whole |
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