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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff?'
-- (He did not go so far as to say, for her pleasure, that there was a sort of Divine Right there; but, I have heard claims almost as magnificent of late years.)
-- Besides, though Loo is a girl, she's not a common sort of girl.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man; he is, however, choleric and original.
-- In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords--the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries--with which every part of the island is indented.
-- "I have not the slightest anxiety about him: that sort of people go ahead without knowing even what they are about.
-- I should have a violent attack of the cramp if I were not to have some sort of exercise.
-- We were introduced into our chamber, a kind of large room with a hard earthen floor, and lighted by a window, the panes of which were made of a sort of parchment from the intestines of sheep--very far from transparent.
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：
-- The arguments, the discussions were the great thing: the love-making and connexion were only a sort of primitive reversion and a bit of an anti-climax.
-- Both sisters lived in their father's, really their mother's, Kensington housemixed with the young Cambridge group, the group that stood for 'freedom' and flannel trousers, and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emo-tional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
-- She lived with him in a smallish house in Westminster, and moved in that good sort of society of people in the government who are not tip-toppers, but who are, or would be, the real intelli-gent power in the nation: people who know what they're talking about, or talk as if they did.
-- He was only caught in the general, popular recoil of the young against convention and against any sort of real authority.
-- And governments were ridiculous: our own wait-and-see sort especially so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man sat down again upon the pavement with the negligent ease of one who was thoroughly accustomed to pavements; and placing three hunks of coarse bread before himself, and falling to upon a fourth, began contentedly to work his way through them as if to clear them off were a sort of game.
-- There is no sort of whiteness in all the hues under the sun at all like the whiteness of Monsieur Rigaud's face as it was then.
-- Then, her mother and I were not young when we married, and Pet has always had a sort of grown-up life with us, though we have tried to adapt ourselves to her.
-- There was the old cellaret with nothing in it, lined with lead, like a sort of coffin in compartments; there was the old dark closet, also with nothing in it, of which he had been many a time the sole contents, in days of punishment, when he had regarded it as the veritable entrance to that bourne to which the tract had found him galloping.
-- 'But there's another sort of girls than that about.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's the sort Father used to tell us,' said Beth thoughtfully, putting the needles straight on Jo's cushion.
-- On the other side was a stately stone mansion, plainly betokening every sort of comfort and luxury, from the big coach house and well-kept grounds to the conserva-tory and the glimpses of lovely things one caught between the rich curtains.
-- Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no chil-dren frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.
-- To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone, and a blow of that sort had never touched her before.
-- Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sis-ter's troubles.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
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