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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In three days' time he was able to sit in an easy-chair, well propped up with pillows; and, as he was still too weak to walk, Mrs. Bedwin had him carried downstairs into the little housekeeper's room, which belonged to her.
-- When he saw Oliver, he pushed the book away from him, and told him to come near the table, and sit down.
-- After some words apart between the last comer and Fagin, they drew their chairs towards the fire; and the Jew, telling Oliver to come and sit by him, led the conversation to the topics most calculated to interest his hearers.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend to join it.
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
-- 'You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to dis-cuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.'
-- 'I know very well, madam,' said he, 'that when persons sit down to a card-table, they must take their chances of these things, and happily I am not in such circumstances as to make five shillings any object.
-- Mrs. Bennet had so careful-ly provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the remedy that offered to my thoughts at that time was to get up into a thick bushy tree like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I resolved to sit all night, and consider the next day what death I should die, for as yet I saw no prospect of life.
-- It was in vain to sit still and wish for what was not to be had; and this extremity roused my application.
-- Some days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not for-bear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast dis-tance I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
-- I never travelled in this journey above two miles out-right in a day, or thereabouts; but I took so many turns and re-turns to see what discoveries I could make, that I came weary enough to the place where I resolved to sit down all night; and then I either reposed myself in a tree, or sur-rounded myself with a row of stakes set upright in the ground, either from one tree to another, or so as no wild creature could come at me without waking me.
-- Sometimes it would take me in the middle of my work, and I would immediately sit down and sigh, and look upon the ground for an hour or two together; and this was still worse to me, for if I could burst out into tears, or vent myself by words, it would go off, and the grief, having exhausted itself, would abate.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Willoughby opened the piano-forte, and asked Marianne to sit down to it; and thus amidst the various endeavours of different people to quit the topic, it fell to the ground.
-- What!all alone!you will be glad of a little company to sit with you.
-- It suggested no other surprise than that Elinor and Marianne should sit so composedly by, without claiming a share in what was passing.
-- Elinor, pleased to have her governed for a moment by such a motive, though believing it hardly possible that she could sit out the dinner, said no more; and adjusting her dress for her as well as she could, while Marianne still remained on the bed, was ready to assist her into the dining room as soon as they were summoned to it.
-- Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner!Lord!how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there!Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Willie went off and presently returned with the information that Mr. Brown said she should sit down and that he would be around in a little while.
-- By the time she was dressed he was gone, and she, Minnie, and the baby ate together, the latter being just old enough to sit in a high chair and disturb the dishes with a spoon.
-- Carrie at last could scarcely sit still.
-- Carrie looked about her, after she had drunk a tinful of water from a bucket in one corner, for a place to sit and eat.
-- "Carrie doesn't seem to like her place very well," said Minnie to her husband when the latter came out, paper in hand, to sit in the dining-room a few minutes.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they arrived home, the little woman made Pinocchio sit down at a small table and placed before him the bread, the cauliflower, and the cake.
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