| 词组 | nor |
| 释义 | nor 1. For nor after no, see no 2; for nor after neither, see neither 2, 4. 2. Nor frequently replaces or in negative statements: • I don't think the barricades is an answer, nor giving up appreciation of and interest in such fine, pleasant, and funny things as may still be around —James Thurber, letter, 20 Jan. 1938 • You cannot describe a house brick by brick, nor a wood leaf by leaf —Leacock 1943 • ... I wasn't interested in literature nor literary people —William Faulkner, 13 Mar. 1958, in Faulkner in the University, 1959 • ... not seeking to discount the study of grammar nor the analysis and practice of good written expression —Finegan 1980 It is clearly felt to be more emphatically negative than or in some instances: • ... I recommend that you have nothing further to do with this person nor with these arms transfers — Robert C. McFarlane, quoted in The Tower Commission Report, 1987 3. There is a dialectal nor that means "than." It was commonly used by 19th-century American dialectal humorists: • ... yet in the state of Indiany, where I live, there's no man as gits a bigger congregation nor what I gits —William Penn Brannan, "The Harp of a Thousand Strings," 1855, in The Mirth of a Nation, ed. Walter Blair & Raven I. McDavid, Jr., 1983 • ... & sez it is wuss nor cleanin house —Artemus Ward: His Book, 1862 |
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