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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- On the other side of the strait, in Terra del Fuego, stood Mount Sarmiento, towering to a height of 6,000 feet, an enormous accumulation of rocks, separated by bands of cloud, forming a sort of aerial archipelago in the sky.
-- The country still presented the same fertile aspect, and abounded in flowers, but animals of any sort only came in sight occasionally, and there were no birds visible, except a solitary heron or owl, and a thrush or grebe, flying from the falcon.
-- The intense cold quickly kills travelers, and those who even manage to hold out against it fall victims to the violence of the TEMPORALES, a sort of hurricane peculiar to those regions, which yearly fills the abysses of the Cordilleras with dead bodies.
-- Besides, there was a sort of fireplace in it, with a chimney of bricks, badly enough put together, certainly, but still it allowed of a fire being lighted.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a 'Penang lawyer.'
-- 'What sort of night was it?'
-- 'What sort of facts?'
-- I could not doubt that this was the Miss Stapleton of whom I had been told, since ladies of any sort must be few upon the moor, and I remembered that I had heard someone describe her as being a beauty.
-- I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing.
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was not silly, and yet attention of this sort had its weight.
-- "What sort of work is it?"
-- She saw that she was taken to be of the same sort and addressed accordingly.
-- He was a brotherly sort of creature in his demeanour.
-- "Sixty-seven," the coach-caller was saying, his voice lifted in a sort of euphonious cry.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That ain't no sort of style.
-- I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me.
-- I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a min-ute I see I was mistaken that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, when my breath sort of hitched, he being so un-expected; but right away after I see I warn't scared of him worth bothring about.
-- While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again.
-- He had heard old Sowberry Hagan in his best days, and he said it laid over him, too; but I reckon that was sort of piling it on, maybe.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The worst sort of rascals!"
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