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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she did resent it, she never gave any sign of it,treating Scarlett with the same slightly aloof, kindly courtesy she had always shown her.
-- There was no sign of that chubby pink-cheeked lady, but asScarlett searched anxiously a spare old negro, with grizzled kinks and an air of dignified authority, came toward herthrough the mud, his hat in his hand.
-- But search though she might, she saw no sign of John Wilkes.
-- There was no sign of Prissy so she went back upstairs, sponged Melanie's perspiring body andcombed out her long dark hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
-- With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts.
-- At length it had come into my head that the sign looked like a hammer, and on my lustily calling that word in my sister's ear, she had begun to hammer on the table and had expressed a qualified assent.
-- When my sister found that Biddy was very quick to understand her, this mysterious sign reappeared on the slate.
-- (To the boy, and with a dreadfully severe stare; foreseeing the danger of that miscreant's brushing me with it, or making some other sign of familiarity.)
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontis-piece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for your-self with the words: 'I am Doctor Knowall,' and have that nailed up above your house-door.'
-- On this the servants looked terribly uneasy, and made a sign to the doctor that they wished him to step outside for a moment.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any sign of houses or inhabitants; at least I was in so weak a condition, that I did not observe them.
-- They made me a sign that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, Borach mevolah; and when they saw the vessels in the air, there was a universal shout of Hekinah degul.
-- I answered in few words, but to no purpose, and made a sign with my hand that was loose, putting it to the other (but over his excellen-cy's head for fear of hurting him or his train) and then to my own head and body, to signify that I desired my liberty.
-- When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants.
-- Whereupon I made a sign that he 104 Gulliver's Travelsshould place his hand on the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.
-- As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
-- There was no mute sign of a woman in the room.
-- Do what you like under the rose, but don't give a sign of what you're about; or half a hundred of 'em will combine together and get this fellow who has bolted, out of reach for good.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Out of politeness I waited three minutes, but no sign of my uncle, the Professor.
-- I bowed as a sign of respect.
-- It was now eight o'clock, and still there was no sign of water.
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