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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough.
-- It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
-- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
-- 'And this man that's to be his master--you, sir--you'll treat him well, and feed him, and do all that sort of thing, will you?'
-- There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.
-- HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more gained the high-road.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most coun-try-town indifference to decorum.'
-- But everybody is to judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very good sort of girls, I assure you.
-- But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.'
-- She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the of-ficers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.
-- When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself and yet what is there so very laudable in a pre-cipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even just the same common sort of joy which seamen gen-erally have, after they are got safe ashore from a shipwreck, which they drown all in the next bowl of punch, and for-get almost as soon as it is over; and all the rest of my life was like it.
-- After this experiment, I need not say that I wanted no sort of earthenware for my use; but I must needs say as to the shapes of them, they were very indifferent, as any one may suppose, when I had no way of making them but as the children make dirt pies, or as a woman would make pies that never learned to raise paste.
-- I knew I had been here now almost eighteen years, and never saw the least footsteps of human creature there before; and I might be eighteen years more as entirely concealed as I was now, if I did not discover myself to them, which I had no manner of occasion to do; it being my only business to keep myself entirely concealed where I was, unless I found a better sort of creatures than cannibals to make myself known to.
-- The place I was in was a most delightful cavity, or grotto, though perfectly dark; the floor was dry and level, and had a sort of a small loose gravel upon it, so that there was no nauseous or venomous creature to be seen, neither was there any damp or wet on the sides or roof.
-- I asked him the names of the several nations of his sort of people, but could get no other name than Caribs; from whence I easily understood that these were the Caribbees, which our maps place on the part of America which reaches from the mouth of the river Orino-co to Guiana, and onwards to St. Martha.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And what sort of a young man is he?"
-- "He is as good a sort of fellow, I believe, as ever lived," repeated Sir John.
-- Then, perhaps, you cannot tell me what sort of a woman she is?"
-- You will be under the care of a motherly good sort of woman, of whose kindness to you I can have no doubt.
-- The sort of desperate calmness with which this was said, lasted no longer than while she spoke, and was immediately followed by a return of the same excessive affliction.
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