既不…也不…：neither的用法小結

God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death. Neither shall there be sorrow or dying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former world has passed away.

——Titanic

上帝擦去他們所有的眼淚，死亡不再有，也不會再有悲傷和生離死別，不再有痛苦，因往事已矣。

——《泰坦尼克號》

一、關於neither，你應該知道的用法有

adj.

兩者都不的 not either

adv.

1.（否定的陳述同樣適用於其他人或物）也不 used to show that a negative statement is also true of sb / sth else

My mother coulan't stand me when I was little and I could not stand her neither.

當我還年幼時，我和媽媽彼此都不能忍受。

...（否定的陳述適用於兩方面）既不...也不... neither... nor... used to show that a negative statement is true of ten things

He would be courageous calm and self assured, but neither pompous nor hypercritical.

他勇敢、冷靜、自信，既不傲慢，也不虛僞。

conj.

3.也不；既不 also not

pron.

兩者都不 not six nor the other of ten things or people

The two women, neither of whom could read, studied the precious slip of paper.

兩個目不識丁的女人都把眼睛盯着這張寶貝字帖。

二、接下來，做個填詞遊戲把

I hadn't been to New York before and ________ had Jane.
   我以前沒有去過紐約,簡也沒去過。