sober是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 未醉的; 严肃的; 素淡的; v. (up) (使) 醒酒; (使) 清醒，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to.
-- That, hereupon he had ascertained, through the regis-ters on the table, that his son-in-law was among the living prisoners, and had pleaded hard to the Tribunal of whom some members were asleep and some awake, some dirty with murder and some clean, some sober and some not for his life and liberty.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been sober and industrious so long now!
-- I wish I could get at a drink and sober up," he agonized.
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：
-- Her face was always more serious and thoughtful than gay; but how well smiles, how well youthful, lighthearted, irresponsible, laughter suited her face!It was natural enough that a warm, open, simple-hearted, honest giant like Razumihin, who had never seen anyone like her and was not quite sober at the time, should lose his head immediately.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have Idetected you in another feast, you Sybarite!These Doctors'Commons fellows are the gayest men in town, I believe, and beatus sober Oxford people all to nothing!'
-- The first person whom saw, to my surprise, by the sober light ofthe shaded lamp, was Uriah.
-- Our treasure was warranted sober and honest.
-- She had taken them out now, to adapt herself, I 616suppose, to the altered character of the house; and wore but one ortwo disconsolate bows of sober brown.
-- Youcome to give me the benefit of your sober judgment at a mostopportune time.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- A few minutes more, and Emma hoped to see one trouble-some companion deposited in his own house, to get sober and cool, and the other recover his temper and happiness when this visit of hardship were over.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentleman-farmer was dressed in cheerful style, in a new coat and white waistcoat, quite contrasting with his usual sober suits of grey.
-- It is not a denial of anything to have been always without it, and what Troy had never enjoyed he did not miss; but, being fully conscious that what sober people missed he enjoyed, his capacity, though really less, seemed greater than theirs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How short was the time for fun, for pretty clothes, fordancing, for coquetting!Only a few, too few years!Then you married and wore dull-colored dresses and had babiesthat ruined your waist line and sat in corners at dances with other sober matrons and only emerged to dance with yourhusband or with old gentlemen who stepped on your feet.
-- The group had two hours to wait between trains and, as it was taxing thediplomacy of the sober members of the party to keep the Fontaines from fighting each other and perfect strangers inthe depot, Ashley brought them all home to Aunt Pittypat's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale.
-- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress.
-- said Trabb's boy, in a sober voice; "but ain't he just pale though!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court: and we often find by experience, that young men are too opinion-ated and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.
-- But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting col-onies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pas-tors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administra-tion through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought?
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