sing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 唱， 演唱； 鸡叫，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sing it!Or, by every Saint who was stoned to death, I'll be affronted and compromising; and then some people who are not dead yet, had better have been stoned along with them!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Meg went away to 'accept with thanks', look over her dress, and sing blithely as she did up her one real lace frill, while Jo finished her story, her four apples, and had a game of romps with Scrabble.
-- Mother is so splendid, she'd do you heaps of good, and Beth would sing to you if I begged her to, and Amy would dance.
-- I read every morning, try to be good all day, and sing myself to sleep with Father's tune.
-- I can't sing 'LAND OF THE LEAL' now, it makes me cry.
-- But there came a time when during the fever fits she began to talk in a hoarse, broken voice, to play on the coverlet as if on her beloved lit-tle piano, and try to sing with a throat so swollen that there was no music left, a time when she did not know the famil-iar faces around her, but addressed them by wrong names, and called imploringly for her mother.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among arch脙娄ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
-- With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time."
-- Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out."
-- But in order to insure the speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing namely, not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered.
-- Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them "Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
-- After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was ea-gerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Middleton frequently called him to order, wondered how any one's attention could be diverted from music for a moment, and asked Marianne to sing a particular song which Marianne had just finished.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whirling wheels began to sing in a steadily modifying key, until at last they died away in a low buzz.
-- There is none of the tendency to sing outside of my lady's window--to languish and repine in the face of difficulties.
-- "Mr. Stevens," he said, referring to the author, "is preparing a little song, which he would like you to sing next week."
-- "I wisht I was in Sing Sing."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a little old piano, too, that had tin pans in it, I reckon, and nothing was ever so lovely as to hear the young ladies sing 'The Last Link is Broken' and play 'The Battle of Prague' on it.
-- He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing and so on.
-- And pretty soon you'd hear a loafer sing out, 'Hi!SO boy!sick him, Tige!'
-- Yes, and ain't privileged to sing the song yet.
-- Didn' he jis' dis minute sing out like he knowed you?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor fellow was scared half to death, so he tried to sing a gay song in order to gain courage.
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