sigh是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 叹气，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：
-- 'That seems the most reasonable theory,' said Stapleton, and he gave a sigh which I took to indicate his relief.
-- She gave a long sigh of satisfaction.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ) would perhaps, without rhyme or reason, suddenly give a sigh and say, 'I wonder whether that old general is alive still!'
-- At last, with a sigh of annoyance, he said to himself that it was nothing but his own cursed sickly suspicion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles drew a deep sigh and said, 'You know it; why tell you what you know well already?
-- Then he took heart, but Agamemnon heaved a deep sigh as he held Menelaus's hand in his own, and his com-rades made moan in concert.
-- Agamemnon shed tears as it were a running stream or cataract on the side of some sheer cliff; and thus, with many a heavy sigh he spoke to the Achaeans.
-- Then, O knight Patroclus, with a deep sigh you answered, 'Achilles, son of Peleus, foremost champion of the Achae-ans, do not be angry, but I weep for the disaster that has now befallen the Argives.
-- He laid his murderous hands upon the breast of his com-rade, groaning again and again as a bearded lion when a man who was chasing deer has robbed him of his young in some dense forest; when the lion comes back he is furious, and searches dingle and dell to track the hunter if he can find him, for he is mad with rage even so with many a sigh did Achilles speak among the Myrmidons saying, 'Alas!
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：
-- It was with a sigh of relief that at last he came upon the little unpainted house, extraordinarily bedraggled now, and unkempt; but here too was the same intolerable silence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The onagers being unharnessed, were thence led to their stable, and Pencroft before going to sleep gave vent to his feelings in a deep sigh of satisfaction that awoke all the echoes of Granite House.
-- And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The truth is and, as there is no accounting for tastes, even a taste so strange as this may be recorded without being looked upon as a wilful and malicious invention the truth is that neither Mrs Wackles nor her eldest daughter had at any time greatly favoured the pretensions of Mr Swiveller, being accustomed to make slight mention of him as 'a gay young man' and to sigh and shake their heads ominously whenever his name was mentioned.
-- With less and less of hope or strength, as they went on, but with an undiminished resolution not to betray by any word or sigh her sinking state, so long as she had energy to move, the child, throughout the remainder of that hard day, compelled herself to proceed: not even stopping to rest as frequently as usual, to compensate in some measure for the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk.
-- This posture of affairs Mr Brass observed through the glass-door as he was turning the handle, and seeing that the notary recognised him, he began to shake his head and sigh deeply while that partition yet divided them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the whole of her subsequent manner, she traced the direction of a mind awakened to reasonable exertion; for no sooner had they entered their common sitting-room, than Marianne turned her eyes around it with a look of resolute firmness, as if determined at once to accustom herself to the sight of every object with which the remembrance of Willoughby could be connected. She said little, but every sentence aimed at cheerfulness, and though a sigh sometimes escaped her, it never passed away without the atonement of a smile.
-- Her smile however changed to a sigh when she remembered that promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect of busy tranquillity.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.
-- Drouet breathed a sigh of relief.
-- Hurstwood breathed a sigh of relief as it started.
-- He heaved a little sigh as she said this, and drew out his purse.
-- With half a sigh he picked up the "World."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody never said anything for a while; then the young man hove a sigh and says: 'Alas!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I found I was wrong, for as soon as I loosened the knot around his neck, he gave a long sigh and mumbled with a faint voice, 'Now I feel better!'"
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