sign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 记号, 标志, 征兆, v. 签名，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If only he can sign this little paper.'
-- 'I won't sign it.'
-- You are a man of judgment and we will take him in hand, that is, more simply, take his hand and he will sign it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked at me steadily as I entered, butmade no sign of recognition whatever.
-- Theyeach took one of Peggotty's trunks, and we were going away, whenMr. Barkis solemnly made a sign to me with his forefinger to comeunder an archway.
-- A child of excellent abilities, and with strongpowers of observation, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt bodilyor mentally, it seems wonderful to me that nobody should havemade any sign in my behalf.
-- Wherefore Mr. Micawber (who was athoroughly good-natured man, and as active a creature abouteverything but his own affairs as ever existed, and never so happyas when he was busy about something that could never be of anyprofit to him) set to work at the petition, invented it, engrossed iton an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, andappointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if theychose, to come up to his room and sign it.
-- I took her to the sign of theexquisite, and treated her with an elopement; her name's Emily,and she lives in the east?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see no sign of attachment I believe nothing of the pianoforte and proof only shall convince me that Mr. Knightley has any thought of marrying Jane Fairfax.'
-- 'I do not see much sign of it.
-- 'My dear Jane, what is this I hear? Going to the post-office in the rain! This must not be, I assure you. You sad girl, how could you do such a thing? It is a sign I was not there to take care of you.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned herself away from him, that he might no longer notice the mood which had set its sign so visibly upon her, and went indoors with a distressing sense of faintness and a beating brow.
-- All the old stabling was now pulled down, and little remained besides the habitable inn itself, which, standing a little way back from the road, signified its existence to people far up and down the highway by a sign hanging from the horizontal bough of an elm on the opposite side of the way.
-- It was near this tree that the waggon was standing into which Gabriel Oak crept on his first journey to Weatherbury; but, owing to the darkness, the sign and the inn had been unobserved.
-- Almost before the first faint sign of dawn appeared she arose again, and opened the window to obtain a full breathing of the new morning air, the panes being now wet with trembling tears left by the night rain, each one rounded with a pale lustre caught from primrose-hued slashes through a cloud low down in the awakening sky.
-- Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- Victorine's eyes filled with tears at the words, and the widow checked herself at a sign from Mme.
-- "Oh!sir," said Victorine, with a tearful but eager glance at Vautrin, who showed no sign of being touched by it, "if you know of any way of communicating with my father, please be sure and tell him that his affection and my mother's honor are more to me than all the money in the world.
-- Couture made a sign that it was time to go upstairs and dress; the two ladies went out, and Father Goriot followed their example.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I started forward and exclaimed, 'Villain!Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.'
-- He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still there was no sign of Gerald on the quiet winding road.
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