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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Last of all appeared Mr. Sleary: a stout man as already mentioned, with one fixed eye, and one loose eye, a voice (if it can be called so) like the efforts of a broken old pair of bellows, a flabby surface, and a muddled head which was never sober and never drunk.
-- She went, with her neat figure and her sober womanly step, down the dark street, and he stood looking after her until she turned into one of the small houses.
-- Feeling it necessary to do something then, he stretched himself out at greater length, and, reclining with the back of his head on the end of the sofa, and smoking with an infinite assumption of negligence, turned his common face, and not too sober eyes, towards the face looking down upon him so carelessly yet so potently.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was my uncle in his sober senses, and could the interior of the earth be reached?
-- My feverish hand began to write down the marvelous details--details more like the imaginings of a lunatic than anything sober and real.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were slight on the greatest occasion, never extending beyond the production of the China tea-service, and the covering of the bed with a sober and sad drapery.
-- With those words he presented another man without a hat, and also with a cigar, and also surrounded with a halo of ale and tobacco smoke, which man, though not so excited as himself, was in a state which would have been akin to lunacy but for its fading into sober method when compared with the rampancy of Mr Pancks.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the boy, trying to look sober while his black eyes shone with fun.
-- I used to see Father sometimes put his finger on his lips, and look at you with a very kind but sober face, and you always folded your lips tight and went away.
-- 'I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral,' said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.
-- They did sober themselves for Beth's sake.
-- If you have plagued him, he's sober and walks slowly, as if he wanted to go back and do his work better.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
-- But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?
-- Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
-- No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
-- His face was an exceedingly round but sober one; he was dressed in a faded blue woollen frock or shirt, and patched trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between a marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other, occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two crippled captains.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Giles, reminded of his unbecoming costume, snatched off and pocketed his nightcap; and substituted a hat, of grave and sober shape, which he took out of the chaise.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it; however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite over, and a charm-ing fine evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more calm and sober judgment she had determined on, she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments, entering on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his sober senses, he could scarcely realise that the thing had been done.
-- Instantly the portly lady's face became exceedingly sober and shrewd.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.
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