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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He considered it a favorable sign that no reply came.
-- The peasants made the sign of the cross and bowed, disheveling their hair; the women, especially the old women, gazing with their lustreless eyes on one image, before which candles burned, pressed hard with the tips of their fingers on the 'kerchief of the forehead, the shoulders and the abdomen, and, mumbling something, bent forward standing, or fell on their knees.
-- At the foot of the stairs the women became silent, and, making the sign of the cross and bowing, they filed into the open door of the empty, gold-bedecked chapel.
-- "And who is to sign the petition?"
-- "The prisoner may sign it herself, and if that be troublesome, she may empower Anatal Semionovitch."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once.
-- There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
-- The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.
-- 8 At the Sign of the Spy-glassHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spy-glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for sign.
-- The sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded.
-- I found them all three seated round the table, a bottle of Spanish wine and some raisins before them, and the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap, and that, I knew, was a sign that he was agitated.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steward, nearly strangled, tottered out on a sign from his master.
-- "My friends," I answered, making a sign for them to enter, "you are not in Canada, but on board the Nautilus, fifty yards below the level of the sea."
-- Not a sound inside, not a sign of life.
-- I undid the bandages, and the wounded man looked at me with his large eyes and gave no sign of pain as I did it.
-- Upon a sign from Captain Nemo one of the men advanced; and at some feet from the cross he began to dig a hole with a pickaxe that he took from his belt.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I always think they are a sign of weakness," said Ursula, up in arms, as if her prestige were threatened.
-- He lifted his arm from the water, in a sign to them.
-- And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells they are a sign that pure creation takes place even the butterfly.
-- I don't know whether it's a sign of old age, I'm sure."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of being; but the snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching my station, and blowing out the light.
-- I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wond ered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.
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