英和和英

接続詞

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?), Hsun Lu, “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, page 134:

     Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.

派生語

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

参考

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

参照

• “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.