sort是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 分类 n. 种类,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vaguely, "Oh, I'd love to but--I have an eleven o'clock, and I don't like to cut it, and I promised May Harmon to go shopping with her--she's looking for some kind of shoes that you can wear with her pink crepe de chine but that you can walk in--and we sort of thought maybe we might lunch at Ye Kollege Karavanserai--and I'd half planned to go to the movies with her or somebody, Mother says that new Alaska film is simply dandy, she saw it tonight, and I thought I might go see it before they take it off, though Heaven knows I ought to come right home and study and not go anywhere at all--" "Now LISTEN!It's important.
-- Of course I do think it's too sort of rococo, but still, it is impressive, and-- Did I guess it, darling?"
-- "Yes, sort of."
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:
-- With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing.
-- Round her thin long neck, which looked like a hen's leg, was knot-ted some sort of flannel rag, and, in spite of the heat, there hung flapping on her shoulders, a mangy fur cape, yellow with age.
-- Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company.
-- The recollection of his re-cent success in getting the situation seemed to revive him, and was positively reflected in a sort of radiance on his face.
-- Well, then, sir' (Marmeladov suddenly gave a sort of start, raised his head and gazed intently at his lis-tener) 'well, on the very next day after all those dreams, that is to say, exactly five days ago, in the evening, by a cunning trick, like a thief in the night, I stole from Katerina Ivanov-na the key of her box, took out what was left of my earnings, how much it was I have forgotten, and now look at me, all of you!It's the fifth day since I left home, and they are look-ing for me there and it's the end of my employment, and my uniform is lying in a tavern on the Egyptian bridge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I must have readvery perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeplyinterested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I haddone, that they were a sort of vegetable.
-- Several times when I glanced at him, I observed thatappearance with a sort of awe, and wondered what he wasthinking about so closely.
-- They both rolled on to their feet, in an untidy sort of manner, whenwe came in, and said, 'Halloa, Murdstone!We thought you weredead!'
-- However, I said 'No,' and I added, 'You don't seem to be,either, though you say you are';- for she was walking much toonear the brink of a sort of old jetty or wooden causeway we hadstrolled upon, and I was afraid of her falling over.
-- 'Master Davy,' said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shakinghand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Being pretty well aware of what sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my congratulations; but I hope it all went off tolerably well.
-- Mrs. Weston ought to have found more in it, for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet tem-per made him think every thing due to her in return for the 16 Emmagreat goodness of being in love with him; but though she had one sort of spirit, she had not the best.
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- He saw his son every year in London, and was proud of him; and his fond report of him as a very fine young man had made Highbury feel a sort of pride in him too.
-- She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The series of novels I projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene.
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- "I'm only an every-day sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer.... Well, there's no use in my waiting, for that was all I came about: so I'll take myself off home-along, Mrs.
-- "A man has advanced me money to begin with, but still, it will soon be paid off, and though I am only an every-day sort of man, I have got on a little since I was a boy."
-- "I never fuss about dirt in its pure state, and when I know what sort it is."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You expect in such places as these to find the weather-house whence a Capuchin issues on wet days; you look to find the execrable engravings which spoil your appetite, framed every one in a black varnished frame, with a gilt beading round it; you know the sort of tortoise-shell clock-case, inlaid with brass; the green stove, the Argand lamps, covered with oil and dust, have met your eyes before.
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