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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ship and its inmates, Iceland, M. Fridriksson, and the great summit of Mount Sneffels!I said to myself that, if in my position I retained the most faint and shadowy outline of a hope, it would be a sure sign of approaching delirium.
-- But no one particular sign could I bring to mind, and I was soon forced to allow that this gallery would never take me back to the point at which I had separated myself from my companions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, knowing what torture poor Clif-ford would feel at the slightest sign of flirting on her part, she gave them no encouragement at all.
-- Then he turned the coop over and deliberated, and he gave absolutely no sign of awareness of the woman's pres-ence.
-- It was nearly four o'clock, still clear and cold, but no sign of dawn.
-- In fact time went by, the sun came out for his last yellow glimpse, and there still was no sign of her.
-- The pits are working two days, two and a half days a week, and there's no sign of betterment even for the winter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Affery, woman,' said Mr Flintwinch, with a friendly grin on his expressive countenance, 'if you ever have a dream of this sort again, it'll be a sign of your being in want of physic.
-- He could only stare, and sometimes weakly mutter that it wouldn't be believed down Bleeding Heart Yard that this was Pancks; but he never said a word more, or made a sign more, even to Little Dorrit.
-- But there was no sign of it to be found anywhere; and then she knew that the tiny woman had told her the truth, and that it would never give anybody any trouble, and that it had sunk quietly into her own grave, and that she and it were at rest together.
-- Tell your other friend to get his head painted for the sign of some public-house, and to get it done by a sign-painter.
-- 'Went to and fro, and high and low,' said Mrs Tickit, 'and saw no sign of her!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all drew to the fire, Mother in the big chair with Beth at her feet, Meg and Amy perched on either arm of the chair, and Jo leaning on the back, where no one would see any sign of emotion if the letter should happen to be touching.
-- Beth did look, and turned pale with delight and surprise, for there stood a little cabinet piano, with a letter lying on the glossy lid, directed like a sign board to 'Miss Elizabeth March.'
-- 'There's Beth crying, that's a sure sign that something is wrong in this family.
-- I'll harrrow up your feel-ings first by asking if you don't think you are something of a flirt,' said Laurie, as Jo nodded to Fred as a sign that peace was declared.
-- Laurie looked at her once or twice, but as she showed no sign of relenting, he felt injured, and turned his back on her till the others were done with him, when he made her a low bow and walked off without a word.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of "The Crossed Harpoons" but it looked too expensive and jolly there.
-- " this, then must needs be the sign of "The Trap."
-- Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the Jew, looking back, waved his hand to intimate that he preferred being alone; and, moreover, as the little man could not very easily disengage himself from the chair; the sign of the Cripples was, for a time, bereft of the advantage of Mr. Lively's presence.
-- The Three Cripples, or rather the Cripples; which was the sign by which the establishment was familiarly known to its patrons: was the public-house in which Mr. Sikes and his dog have already figured.
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