sister是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 姐， 妹； 护士长； 修女， 女教士，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：
-- Live and let live and mind your own business is my motto, and that's what I said to Alec Ingleblad the other day when I was in there having a shave and he was trying to get funny about our holding so many mortgages, but I'll be blamed if I'm going to allow a fellow that I don't know anything about to come snooping around My Sister till I find out something about his prospects!"
-- "I object to the use of profanity, but when you come and annoy My Sister a second time, all I can say is, by God, sir, this is too blame much!"
-- They had three children, all born when Gottlieb was over thirty- eight: Miriam, the youngest, an ardent child who had a touch at the piano, an instinct about Beethoven, and hatred for the "ragtime" popular in America; an older sister who was nothing in particular; and their boy Robert-- Robert Koch Gottlieb.
-- Martin was seated (it is doubtful if he ever knew that he was the guest of honor) between Capitola McGurk and a woman of whom he could learn only that she was the sister of a countess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.
-- His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, es-corted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high proces-sion.
-- Whereat Scrooge's niece's sister the plump one with the lace tucker: not the one with the roses blushed.
-- Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the infection off; though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed.
-- The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of hu-man nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiri-tual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it.
-- Hence Monseigneur had taken his sister from a convent, while there was yet time to ward off the im-pending veil, the cheapest garment she could wear, and had bestowed her as a prize upon a very rich Farmer-General, poor in family.
-- 'I propose that we first conduct your sister safely to the corner of her own street.
-- 'I should have hoped, gentlemen both,' said the spy, al-ways striving to hook Mr. Lorry into the discussion, 'that your respect for my sister ' 'I could not better testify my respect for your sister than by finally relieving her of her brother,' said Sydney Carton.
-- 'Nevertheless, Doctor, my sister married.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You stood devoutly with folded hands; and father and mother were just as pious; and then the door was opened, and little sister Mary, who is not two 150 Andersen's Fairy Talesyears old yet, and who always dances when she hears mu-sic or singing, of whatever kind it may be, was put into the room though she ought not to have been there and then she began to dance, but could not keep time, because the tones were so long; and then she stood, first on the one leg, and bent her head forwards, and then on the other leg, and bent her head forwards but all would not do.
-- Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another without regard to age or rank.
-- He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all.
-- There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him.
-- But even in this sleep there came a dream, or whatever else it was: his little sister Augusta, she with the blue eyes and the fair curling hair, was suddenly a tall, beautiful girl, and without having wings was yet able to fly; and she now flew over Zealand over the green woods and the blue lakes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
-- said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like his master, realized the significance of this arrival--that is, that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of, might bring about a reconciliation between husband and wife.
-- This post he had received through his sister Anna's husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, who held one of the most important positions in the ministry to whose department the Moscow office belonged.
-- Levin did not remember his own mother, and his only sister was older than he was, so that it was in the Shtcherbatskys' house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he had been deprived by the death of his father and mother.
-- Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o'clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the great flight of steps was Oblonsky, who was expecting his sister by the same train.
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