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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merely making a sign to a man at the bar, Fagin walked straight upstairs, and opening the door of a room, and softly insinuating himself into the chamber, looked anxiously about: shading his eyes with his hand, as if in search of some particular person.
-- There were a white bank, and a red brewery, and a yellow town-hall; and in one corner there was a large house, with all the wood about it painted green: before which was the sign of 'The George.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
-- You need not send them word at Longbourn of my going, if you do not like it, for it will make the surprise the greater, when I write to them and sign my name 'Lydia Wickham.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked about on the shore lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapped up in a contemplation of my deliverance; making a thousand gestures and motions, which I cannot describe; reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned, and that there should not be one soul saved but myself; for, as for them, I never saw them after-wards, or any sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
-- I was under some apprehension, during my absence from the land, that at least my provisions might be devoured on shore: but when I came back I found no sign of any vis-itor; only there sat a creature like a wild cat upon one of the chests, which, when I came towards it, ran away a little distance, and then stood still.
-- I worked excessive hard these three or four months to get my wall done; and the 14th of April I closed it up, contriv-ing to go into it, not by a door but over the wall, by a ladder, that there might be no sign on the outside of my habitation.
-- Upon the whole, I concluded that I ought, neither in principle nor in policy, one way or other, to concern myself in this affair: that my business was, by all possible means to conceal myself from them, and not to leave the least sign for them to guess by that there were any living creatures upon the island - I mean of human shape.
-- Such certainly was the case of these men, of whom I could not so much as see room to suppose any were saved; nothing could make it rational so much as to wish or expect that they did not all perish there, except the possibil-ity only of their being taken up by another ship in company; and this was but mere possibility indeed, for I saw not the least sign or appearance of any such thing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a hasty exclamation of Misery, and a sign to her sister not to follow her, she directly got up and hurried out of the room.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to stand near her and make her lay her hand in his--he wanted to find out what her next step would be--what the next sign of feeling for him would be.
-- They had gone but a few blocks when a livery stable sign in one of the side streets solved the difficulty for him.
-- He's got a secret sign that stands for something."
-- He gave no sign of the thoughts that flashed like messages to his mind.
-- He had evidently delivered the package, for, as he came up, he made no sign of taking anything out of his pocket.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
-- Tom he made a sign to me kind of a little noise with his mouth and we went creeping away on our hands and knees.
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I made my mark on the paper.
-- One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hun-dred camels, and over a thousand 'sumter' mules, all loaded down with di'monds, and they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Read the sign and you'll know."
-- At that sneeze, Harlequin, who until then had been as sad as a weeping willow, smiled happily and leaning toward the Marionette, whispered to him: "Good news, brother mine!Fire Eater has sneezed and this is a sign that he feels sorry for you.
-- Then he solemnly pronounced the following words: "To my mind this Marionette is dead and gone; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is still alive!"
-- To my mind this Marionette is alive; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is wholly dead!"
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