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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She watched her sister for some moments.
-- There was a pause, whilst each sister vaguely considered her fate.
-- Gerald waited a moment, for his sister to play hostess.
-- But his sister merely crowded to her seat.
-- "And a fool you look in it," cried Diana, his pert sister who was just in her teens.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She expressed pleasure, too, at finding a sister among her new acquaintance; and she prattled to Catherine, and kissed her, and ran about with her, and gave her quantities of presents, at the beginning.
-- Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister in law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force sh e would have found it impossible.
-- Catherine supped with her brother and sister in law: Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs on one side and sauciness on the other.
-- His sister began weeping to go home, and Cathy stood by confounded, blushing for all.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But that year his sister married, and his mother went abroad.
-- The Sister angrily shouted: "What are you roaring about?
-- Nekhludoff, on the other hand, to say nothing of the vexation caused him by his brother-in-law's interference in his affairs (in the depth of his soul he felt that his brother-in-law, his sister and their children, as heirs, had the right to do so), was indignant at the calm and confident manner of that narrow-minded man who continued to consider legal and just that which to Nekhludoff was undoubtedly foolish.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before all because Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be all the rest.'
-- 'But it certainly was funny,' (Alice said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the history of all this,) 'to find myself singing "Here we go round the mulberry bush."
-- she said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the history of the feast.
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