sit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 坐， 坐下； 位于； 栖息； 孵卵vt. 使就坐，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to sit down and was looking for a seat; he was walking along the K Boulevard.
-- Raskolnikov did not sit down, but he felt unwilling to leave her, and stood facing her in perplexity.
-- 'Luise Ivanovna, you can sit down,' he said casually to the gaily- dressed, purple-faced lady, who was still standing as though not venturing to sit down, though there was a chair beside her.
-- The small lady positively skipped from her seat on seeing him, and fell to curtsying in a sort of ecstasy; but the officer took not the smallest notice of her, and she did not venture to sit down again in his presence.
-- 'Come sit down, you are tired, I'll be bound.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor having been upstairs and come down again, and havingsatisfied himself, I suppose, that there was a probability of thisunknown lady and himself having to sit there, face to face, forsome hours, laid himself out to be polite and social.
-- Mr. Chillip could do nothing after this, but sit and look at herfeebly, as she sat and looked at the fire, until he was called upstairsagain.
-- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in the dark and a strongdraught, until he was again sent for.
-- Then there are the two parlours; the parlour in which we sit of anevening, my mother and I and Peggotty- for Peggotty is quite ourcompanion, when her work is done and we are alone- and the bestparlour where we sit on a Sunday; grandly, but not so comfortably.
-- I was tired of reading, anddead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until mymother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, Iwould rather have died upon my post (of course) than have goneto bed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.
-- She was so busy in admiring those soft blue eyes, in talk-ing and listening, and forming all these schemes in the in-betweens, that the evening flew away at a very unusual rate; and the supper-table, which always closed such par-ties, and for which she had been used to sit and watch the due time, was all set out and ready, and moved forwards to the fire, before she was aware.
-- said she: 'did you ever sit for your picture?'
-- But really, I could almost venture, if Harriet would sit to me.
-- She would sit whenever I asked her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
-- But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!It played me nearly the same trick the other day!"
-- She made him sit up, and then Oak began wiping his face and shaking himself like a Samson.
-- Dinner being over, Bathsheba, for want of a better companion, had asked Liddy to come and sit with her.
-- "Now, don't ye take on so, shepherd, and sit down!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You have to sit up at night, it seems, if you really mean to know all that is going on about you in Paris."
-- Vauquer, "just imagine it; he did not even ask Victorine to sit down, she was standing the whole time.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My place of refuge was constructed of wood, but so low that I could with difficulty sit upright in it.
-- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
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