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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course I only answer for myself you can hardly expect your sister ' 'My sister again,' cried Gania, looking at her with con-tempt and almost hate.
-- I shall never leave you, mother; any other man would cut and run from such a sister as this.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murder-ous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.
-- Deiphobus went up to him and said, 'Aeneas, prince among the Trojans, if you know any ties of kinship, help me now to defend the body of your sister's husband; come with me to the rescue of Alcathous, who being husband to your sister brought you up when you were a child in his house, and now Idomeneus has slain him.'
-- Apollo with his arrows took his stand to face King Neptune, while Minerva took hers against the god of war; the archer-goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo, stood to face Juno; Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto, while the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against Vulcan.
-- But his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him and said, 'So you would fly, Far-Darter, and hand victory over to Neptune with a cheap vaunt to boot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And no laughing matter to them as had the doing for him, as I had my sister being took up with her little ones so much.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Cora who stood drawing her veil about her person, with a calmness to which her agitated sister was a stranger.
-- Within this fragile bar-rier he arranged the blankets abandoned by the foresters, darkening the inner extremity of the cavern, while its outer received a chastened light from the narrow ravine, through which one arm of the river rushed to form the junction with its sister branch a few rods below.
-- To the reiterated and earnest questions of her sister concerning their probable destination, she made no other answer than by pointing toward the dark group, with an agitation she could not control, and murmuring as she folded Alice to her bosom.
-- For many moments the elder sister looked upon the younger, with a countenance that wavered with powerful and contending emotions.
-- When this necessary, and, happily, grateful duty had been performed, each of the foresters stooped and took a long and parting draught at that solitary and silent spring*, around which and its sister fountains, within fifty years, the wealth, beauty and talents of a hemisphere were to assemble in throngs, in pursuit of health and pleasure.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and his wife, a Government official and his wife, Mrs. Strickland's sister and her husband, Colonel MacAndrew, and the wife of a Member of Parliament.
-- Mrs. Strickland's sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more faded; and she had the efficient air, as though she carried the British Empire in her pocket, which the wives of senior officers acquire from the consciousness of belonging to a superior caste.
-- Mrs. MacAndrew looked at her sister coolly.
-- She died very peacefully, so that I didn't know she was dead till the sister told me."
-- Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteriously, like the unsubstantial fabric of a magic wand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wild young grandson makes answer to this and says, "You're as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you're saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives with you in a secret, stealthy, hugger-muggering kind of way and with no manner of enjoyment why can't you stand a trifle for your grown-up relation?"
-- 'You saw my sister Nell?'
-- Here Miss Jane (previously instructed for the purpose) interposed her many curls and whispered her sister to observe how jealous Mr Cheggs was.
-- They went to the house of an old nurse, where the elder sister had engaged a bed-room for the child.
-- 'The business wouldn't go on very long, I expect, without me,' returned his sister composedly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff could never bear his familiarity, his self-satisfied laughter--in a word, his "communizing," as Nekhludoff's sister used to put it.
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