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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suellen was an annoying sister with her whining andselfishness, and had it not been for Ellen's restraining hand, Scarlett would frequently have boxed her ears.
-- The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray eyes of John Wilkes and Ashley weresparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India.
-- She's my sister now," and Ashley bent and touched her cheek withcold lips, his face drawn and taut.
-- She is my sister now," and Mellybestowed one of her fond little glances on her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied.
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair, saying nothing more than the awful words, "You come along and be dosed."
-- Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,--an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.
-- As to me, I think my sister must have had some general idea that I was a young offender whom an Accoucheur Policeman had taken up (on my birthday) and delivered over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear; but the eldest still said, it was only the princes, who were crying for joy.
-- At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her.
-- And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.
-- They did not awake until it was dark night, and Hansel comfort-ed his little sister and said: 'Just wait, Gretel, until the moon rises, and then we shall see the crumbs of bread which I have strewn about, they will show us our way home again.'
-- Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I own she came often to my house, but always publicly, nor ever without three more in the coach, who were usually her sister and young daughter, and some particular acquaintance; but this was common to many other ladies of the court.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thomas, though I have the fact before me, I find it difficult to believe that you, with your education and resources, should have brought your sister to a scene like this.'
-- His sister sat in the darker corner by the fireside, now looking at him, now looking at the bright sparks as they dropped upon the hearth.
-- Their shadows were defined upon the wall, but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung by a dark cavern.
-- When he says to me what I don't like, I shall say to him, "My sister Loo will be hurt and disappointed, Mr. Bounderby.
-- And, Thomas, it is really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out, that a boy brought up as you have been, and whose education has cost what yours has, should be found encouraging his sister to wonder, when he knows his father has expressly said that she is not to do it.'
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：
-- Between artists and cultured social-ists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
-- It's a mercy she had a sister to come and help her.
-- 'Isn't that when your sister will be there?'
-- 'And then your sister would drop you somewhere and you'd walk or drive back here?
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