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：
-- The sister of the countess, a sallow and stringy woman, was glowing at him.
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：
-- 'Good-bye are you always at home alone, your sister is not here with you?'
-- The boy in the corner losing all control began trembling and screaming and rushed to his sister in violent terror, almost in a fit.
-- In the first place, would you have guessed, dear Rodya, that your sister has been living with me for the last six weeks and we shall not be separated in the future.
-- If I had written the whole truth to you, I dare say you would have thrown up everything and have come to us, even if you had to walk all the way, for I know your character and your feelings, and you would not let your sister be insulted.
-- I hasten to tell you all about the matter, and though it has been arranged without asking your consent, I think you will not be aggrieved with me or with your sister on that account, for you will see that we could not wait and put off our decision till we heard from you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister shewrote to me the name of this here place, and wrote to me as if everI chanced to come to Gravesen', I was to come over and inquire forMas'r Davy, and give her dooty, humbly wishing him well, andreporting of the fam'ly as they was on-common toe-be-sure.
-- LittleEm'ly, you see, she'll write to my sister when I go back as I seeyou, and as you was similarly oncommon, and so we make it quitea merry-go-rounder.'
-- He then gravely repaired toanother table, where his sister sat herself at her desk.
-- I had some shadowy idea of endeavouring to evade the questionby replying that I thought him a very nice gentleman; but my auntwas not to be so put off, for she laid her work down in her lap, andsaid, folding her hands upon it'Come!Your sister Betsey Trotwoodwould have told me what she thought of any one, directly.
-- Be aslike your sister as you can, and speak out!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seven-teen.
-- I am sure Miss Nash would for Miss Nash thinks her own sister very well married, and it is only a linen-drap-er.'
-- 'Harriet must give us as much of her company as she can while my brother and sister are here.
-- And as for objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is in truth the great point of inferiority, the want of which is re-ally the great evil to be avoided in not marrying, I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about.
-- Mrs. John Knightley was a pretty, elegant little woman, of gentle, quiet manners, and a disposition remarkably ami-able and affectionate; wrapt up in her family; a devoted wife, a doating mother, and so tenderly attached to her father and sister that, but for these higher ties, a warmer love might have seemed impossible.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the sensation was so pronounced that her instinct on two or three occasions was merely to walk as a queen among these gods of the fallow, like a little sister of a little Jove, and to neglect closing prices altogether.
-- No mother existed to absorb his devotion, no sister for his tenderness, no idle ties for sense.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
-- One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left child-less.
-- In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with plea-sure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
-- His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
-- My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Missy," he said, pinching her cheek, "so, you've been spying on me and, like your sister Suellen last week,you'll be telling your mother on me?"
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