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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, and so they left him to come on later, while Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter.
-- They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
-- Sit still and watch.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's fresh sassafras boughs for the ladies to sit on, which may not be as proud as their my-hog-guinea chairs, but which sends up a sweeter flavor, than the skin of any hog can do, be it of Guinea, or be it of any other land.
-- Sit ye down, young man, and I will open to you the wounds of a seared heart, in as few words as may be suitable.'
-- Sir, he had better raise this siege, to go and sit down before Edward if he wishes to frighten his enemy with words.'
-- Not one of the three appeared in the least to doubt their perfect security, as was indicated by the preparations that were soon made to sit in council over their future pro-ceedings.
-- If you stay, it must be to sit down here in the shadow, and take the part of Uncas, until such times as the cunning of the Indians discover the cheat, when, as I have already said, your times of trial will come.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
-- Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I think perhaps I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character.
-- He did not want arm-chairs to sit in; he really felt more at his ease on a kitchen chair.
-- Sometimes he would sit silent and abstracted, taking no notice of anyone; and at others, when he was in a good humour, he would talk in his own halting way.
-- It was too cold to sit outside, and we took our places on leather benches within.
-- "Do you know, I've seen them sit there for hours together without saying a word?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After the heat of these warm summer days, in the evening when their work was finished and the sea-breeze began to blow, they liked to sit on the edge of Prospect Heights, in a sort of veranda, covered with creepers, which Neb had made with his own hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Sit down, Swiveller.'
-- But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you.'
-- She'll sit with you, my soul, while I write a letter.'
-- Moreover, he sent an express to the wharf for the tumbling boy, who arriving with all despatch was enjoined to sit himself down in another chair just inside the door, continually to smoke a great pipe which the dwarf had provided for the purpose, and to take it from his lips under any pretence whatever, were it only for one minute at a time, if he dared.
-- The legal gentleman, whose melodious name was Brass, might have called it comfort also but for two drawbacks: one was, that he could by no exertion sit easy in his chair, the seat of which was very hard, angular, slippery, and sloping; the other, that tobacco-smoke always caused him great internal discomposure and annoyance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Kartinkin, sit down!"
-- "Kartinkin, sit down!"
-- But Kartinkin stood still until the usher, his head leaning to the side, and with wide-open eyes, whispered to him in a tragic tone: "Sit down, sit down!"
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