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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Heyward, taking his pistols from the place where he had laid them on entering; 'be it a sign of peace or a signal of war, it must be looked to.
-- Duncan caught glimpses of heads above the scattered drift-wood, as this signal rose on the air, but they disappeared again as suddenly as they had glanced upon his sight.
-- At that moment the woods were filled with another burst of cries, and at the signal four savages sprang from the cov-er of the driftwood.
-- The signal was instantly given; and, before Hawkeye had reloaded his rifle, they were joined by Chingachgook.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporter then proposed to light a fire on a point of the islet, which would serve as a signal to the engineer.
-- It appeared as if this signal had been waited for; the barking immediately came nearer, and soon a dog bounded into the passage.
-- Pencroft hoisted the capybara on his shoulders, and judging by the height of the sun that it was about two o'clock, he gave the signal to return.
-- But before giving his companions the signal for departure, Cyrus Harding said to them in a calm, grave voice, Here, my friends, is the small corner of land upon which the hand of the Almighty has thrown us.
-- At five o'clock in the evening, Cyrus Harding gave the signal to halt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- He raised his head, and glanced from the fluttering signal to his idle bat, that lay with slate and book and other boyish property upon a table in the room.
-- For herself, she was to sleep in Mrs Jarley's own travelling-carriage, as a signal mark of that lady's favour and confidence.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.
-- And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
-- If any one of you six make a signal of any description, that man's dead."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In about an hour Captain Nemo gave the signal to halt; I, for my part, was not sorry, and we stretched ourselves under an arbour of alariae, the long thin blades of which stood up like arrows.
-- But as if at a signal every sail was furled, the arms folded, the body drawn in, the shells turned over, changing their centre of gravity, and the whole fleet disappeared under the waves.
-- The Canadian's signal did not come.
-- At a signal from the Captain, its screw was shipped, and its blades raised vertically; the Nautilus shot into the air like a balloon, rising with stunning rapidity, and cutting the mass of waters with a sonorous agitation.
-- Let us signal them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he saw Birkin rise and signal to him.
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