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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the while his sister was speaking, he gazed at her with wide-open eyes, only knowing now how much she had done and suffered for him; and, as she ended, he flung himself on her neck, and exclaimed, "Oh, mamma!My dear little mamma!"
-- "Very well, then," exclaimed little Robert, "I'll go and speak to those people myself, and we'll see if they—" He did not complete his sentence, for his sister stopped him; but his clenched fists showed his intentions were the reverse of pacific.
-- "Oh, my sister is very fond of you, Mr. John, and so am I," exclaimed Robert.
-- Often and often Robert came in for caresses from his sister and Lady Helena.
-- A minute after, the hole was enlarged, and Robert passed from the arms of his sister to those of Lady Helena.
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：
-- And yet, if it were not for the loss of the charming companionship of the boys, I could rejoice over my own misfortune, for, with my strong tastes for bot-any and zoology, I find an unlimited field of work here, and my sister is as devoted to Nature as I am.
-- As it was I told him that my feel-ings towards his sister were such as I was not ashamed of, and that I hoped that she might honour me by becoming my wife.
-- 'His sister is everything in his life, he says.
-- He was very sorry for all that had passed, and he recognized how foolish and how selfish it was that he should imagine that he could hold a beautiful woman like his sister to himself for her whole life.
-- From crime to crime he sank lower and lower, until it is only the mercy of God which has snatched him from the scaf-fold; but to me, sir, he was always the little curly-headed boy that I had nursed and played with, as an elder sister would.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother is always crying, of course, and my sister sulks.
-- At least, I gave my sister to understand as much, and my mother was present.'
-- Now, as to your plans in the house, or rather in the family of Gania here my young friend, whom I hope you will know better his mother and sister have prepared two or three rooms for lodgers, and let them to highly recommended young fellows, with board and attendance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
-- Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.
-- Sister Carrie gazed out of the window.
-- "Why, Sister Carrie!"
-- Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn't nobody but just me and pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on ac-count of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was left, because the farm didn't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how I come to be here.
-- She says: 'Well, Sister Phelps, I've ransacked that-air cabin over, an' I b'lieve the nigger was crazy.
-- I says to Sister Damrell didn't I, Sister Damrell?
-- 'An' look at that-air ladder made out'n rags, Sister Hotch-kiss,' says old Mrs. Damrell; 'what in the name o' goodness COULD he ever want of ' 'The very words I was a-sayin' no longer ago th'n thisminute to Sister Utterback, 'n' she'll tell you so herself.
-- Sh-she, Sister Hotchkiss, sh-she ' 'But how in the nation'd they ever GIT that grind- stone IN there, ANYWAY?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tormented by the wish to see his father and his fairy sister with azure hair, he raced like a greyhound.
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