学员疑问: Researchers analyzed the writings of bloggers with either terminal cancer who all died over the course of the study, and compared it to blog posts written by a group of participants who were told to imagine they had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had only a few months to live. 老师,这个句中的either应该怎么理解呢?
老师解答:前文应该是提到过两种terminal cancers,这里either指”两者中的任一“
点评分析:对于以上这个句子中either的用法做判断,可以根据语境和语法来判断,根据语法,这里either为限定词(determiner)限定terminal cancer,从而意思可以基本确定为“两者中的任一”,只是那两者,光看这一个句子不能明确,那估计是上下文提到的了。