signal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. (发) 信号，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：
-- It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At noon the Parsee gave the signal of departure.
-- Passepartout tried to reason about the matter, but the policeman tapped him with his stick, and Mr. Fogg made him a signal to obey.
-- The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head.
-- Fix decided that he must warn the English authorities, and signal the Rangoon before her arrival.
-- The flag was run up at half-mast, and, this being the signal of distress, it was hoped that the American steamer, perceiving it, would change her course a little, so as to succour the pilot-boat.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have let you alone, Dr. Gottlieb," said Tubbs, "but, hang it, I am the Director!And I must say that, perhaps owing to my signal stupidity, I fail to see the horrors of enabling Arrowsmith to cure thousands of suffering persons and to become a man of weight and esteem!"
-- She concentrated on it, wondering if by some magic she might not have a signal from him, but she could get no feeling of his looking toward her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt had obtained a signal victory over Mrs. Crupp, bypaying her off, throwing the first pitcher she planted on the stairsout of window, and protecting in person, up and down thestaircase, a supernumerary whom she engaged from the outerworld.
-- when the text seemed to require it: whichwas always a signal to Mr. Dick (a perfect country gentleman) tofollow lustily with the same cry.
-- Ourappearance in a shop was a signal for the damaged goods to bebrought out immediately.
-- For hours I lay there, listening to the wind and water; imagining,now, that I heard shrieks out at sea; now, that I distinctly heard thefiring of signal guns; and now, the fall of houses in the town.
-- We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; afavourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog came up, licked his hand, and made signs implying that he expected some great reward for signal services rendered.
-- Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream.
-- It was the vane on the roof turning round, and this change in the wind was the signal for a disastrous rain.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Restaud; and with the youthful audacity that 莽卢卢28 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 commits prodigious blunders or achieves signal success, he said to himself, "This is my rival; I mean to cut him out."
-- de Nucingen will give the signal for a battle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
-- I was possessed by a madden-ing rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All were waiting fortheir hostess to signal the end of the morning's festivities.
-- Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, eachoffice swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, theprovost marshal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant's hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch.
-- which was the signal for the dip of the oars.
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