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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About two o'clock they came to an immense barren plain, without a sign of vegetation.
-- Toward noon, however, the sun's rays were extremely scorching, and when evening came, a bar of clouds streaked the southwest horizon—a sure sign of a change in the weather.
-- On a sign from the Indian Glenarvan took his place, while Thalcave went back into the inclosure and gathered up all the dried grass and ALFAFARES, and, indeed, all the combustibles he could rake together, and made a pile of them at the entrance.
-- No sign of decrease appeared on the surface of the immense lake, yet the flood seemed to have reached its maximum height; but the violence with which it rushed from the south to north proved that the equilibrium of the Argentine rivers was not restored.
-- We are in civilized districts without seeing any sign of it; but our road will, before the day is over, cross the railway which connects the Murray with the sea.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
-- He had come to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study, the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed, and that we are to dine at Merripit House next Friday as a sign of it.
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
-- I had seen enough of the contrary nature of the old sinner to understand that any strong sign of interest would be the surest way to stop his confidences.
-- There was no trace, how-ever, of anything of the kind, nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular place, save that he must be of Spar-tan habits and cared little for the comforts of life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In doing so you will but be giving me a sign of your sympathy for me, and of your pity; only this, only this; nothing more, NOTHING.
-- He went up to his daughter, and looked at the child in her arms, anxious-ly making the sign of the cross over her three times.
-- But the old lady, before Parfen had time to touch her, raised her right hand, and, with three fingers held up, de-voutly made the sign of the cross three times over the prince.
-- At half-past three there was no sign of Colia.
-- Of the rest of the audience, many had understood the allusion and wondered both at the daring of the lady and at the motive underlying it, but tried to show no sign of their feelings.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shot through the sky as some brilliant meteor which the son of scheming Saturn has sent as a sign to mariners or to some great army, and a fiery train of light follows in its wake.
-- As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Ajax made a sign to Phoenix, and when he saw this, Ulysses filled his cup with wine and pledged Achilles.
-- On this she nodded quietly to Patroclus as a sign that he was to prepare a bed for Phoenix, and that the others should take their leave.
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
-- Then he whistled as a sign to Diomed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The brute made no sign of retreat; but its ears went back, its hair bristled, and its body crouched together.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.
-- When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He waited for some sign of an answer to his questions, but the answer did not come.
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