sitting-room是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 起居室，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nearly nine o'clock when I found myself in the sitting-room once more.
-- It was in the private sitting-room to which we afterwards repaired that Holmes asked Baskerville what were his intentions.
-- A maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IX He never knew it but for an hour, in their cabin half-lighted from the lamps in their sitting-room beyond, she watched him sleeping.
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：
-- He brought Avdotya Romanovna back into his sitting-room and offered her a chair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was delighted with the place, my aunt and Mrs. Cruppwithdrew into the pantry to discuss the terms, while I remained onthe sitting-room sofa, hardly daring to think it possible that I couldbe destined to live in such a noble residence.
-- When I went out to theCommons, I charged Mrs. Crupp with particular directions to leavethe windows open, that my sitting-room might be aired, andpurged of his presence.
-- 'If you had only had thecondescension to return my confidence when I poured out thefulness of my art, the night I put you so much out of the way bysleeping before your sitting-room fire, I never should have doubtedyou.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 290 EmmaChapter XThe appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usu-al employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.
-- Emma was gratified, and would soon have shewn no want of words, if the sound of Mrs. Elton's voice from the sitting-room had not checked her, and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensa-tions into a very, very earnest shake of the hand.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fetching three other men to assist him, they bore the unconscious truant indoors, placing the coffin on two benches in the middle of a little sitting-room next the hall, as Bathsheba directed.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- Vauquer saw to her table, lighted a fire daily in the sitting-room for nearly six months, and kept the promise of her prospectus, even going to some expense to do so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is fair to remark that there was no prohibition against any pupil's entertaining himself with a slate or even with the ink (when there was any), but that it was not easy to pursue that branch of study in the winter season, on account of the little general shop in which the classes were holden--and which was also Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamber--being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.
-- This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.
-- They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
-- However, I came into town on the Monday night to be ready for Joe, and I got up early in the morning, and caused the sitting-room and breakfast-table to assume their most splendid appearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her own private sitting-room was a story higher, at the window of which post of observation she was ready, every morning, to greet Mr. Bounderby, as he came across the road, with the sympathizing recognition appropriate to a Victim.
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：
-- Connie had a sitting-room on the third floor, the top floor of the central portion of the house.
-- He went up to her sitting-room in the morning.
-- But she looked round the clean, tidy, rather dreary little sitting-room with something like dismay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put in his head at the door of Clennam's sitting-room to say Good night.
-- It seemed to fill to inconvenience the little bar in which the widow landlady and her two daughters received him; it was much too big for the narrow wainscoted room with a bagatelle-board in it, that was first proposed for his reception; it perfectly swamped the little private holiday sitting-room of the family, which was finally given up to him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt as if he could say a good word all around himself, and took a most genial glance at the spread table and polished sideboard before going upstairs to read his paper in the comfortable armchair of the sitting-room which looked through the open windows into the street.
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