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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, mith;' he put a form for them to sit on; 'I have my opinionth, and the Thquire your father hath hith.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were compelled every quarter of an hour or thereabouts to sit down in order to rest our legs.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he had to sit in a wheeled chair or a sort of bath-chair.
-- Now she and Michaelis sit on opposite sides of the fire and talked.
-- 'Won't you sit down again?'
-- Connie was in love with him, but she managed to sit with her embroidery and let the men talk, and not give her-self away.
-- And Connie sat there and put another stitch in her sewing...Yes, she sat there!She had to sit mum.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the interminable Sunday of his nonage; when his mother, stern of face and unrelenting of heart, would sit all day behind a Bible bound, like her own construction of it, in the hardest, barest, and straitest boards, with one dinted ornament on the cover like the drag of a chain, and a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves as if it, of all books!were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse.
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
-- Wistful and wondering, she would sit in summer weather by the high fender in the lodge, looking up at the sky through the barred window, until, when she turned her eyes away, bars of light would arise between her and her friend, and she would see him through a grating, too.
-- At first, such a baby could do little more than sit with him, deserting her livelier place by the high fender, and quietly watching him.
-- Pray sit down, Mr Clennam.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I used to be so frightened when it was my turn to sit in the chair with the crown on, and see you all come marching round to give the presents, with a kiss.
-- I liked the things and the kisses, but it was dreadful to have you sit looking at me while I opened the bundles,' said Beth, who was toasting her face and the bread for tea at the same time.
-- Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready.
-- But I want to say one word before we sit down.
-- 'You must sit still all you can and keep your back out of sight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to me, as a pilot of the living God.
-- But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.
-- "Gracious!Queequeg, don't sit there," said I.
-- Ha!Starbuck!but the deed is done!Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it.
-- And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
-- Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings.
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