signify是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 表示; 意味; 有重要性，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the old man it was Death himself he nodded so strangely, it could just as well signify yes as no.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch smiled coldly, with his lips alone, meaning to signify to her and himself the firmness of his conviction; but this warm defense, though it could not shake him, reopened his wound.
-- But in order to signify in some way her preparation for dinner, she asked the maid to brush her dress, changed her cuffs and tie, and put some lace on her head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, whatdoes that signify to me?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- However she seemed to have a short cut for getting back to cheerfulness, and set her face to signify archness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little redness or a little matter of Bone, here or there, what does it signify to Me?"
-- I sagaciously observed, if it didn't signify to him, to whom did it signify?
-- says he, 'Camilla, what can it signify so long as the poor bereaved little things are in black?'
-- Orlick, without a doubt!She had lost his name, and could only signify him by his hammer.
-- Dissatisfied, and uncomfortable, and--what would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
-- 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.
-- It is upon this account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, to signify circumspec-tion; with a bag of gold open in her right hand, and a sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more disposed to reward than to punish.
-- 'In three days your friend the secretary will be direct-ed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty's surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.
-- I held them in my hands, till I came within two hundred yards of the gate, and desired them 'to signify my arrival to one of the secretaries, and let him know, I there waited his majesty's command.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It don't signify to any one.'
-- 'Well really my dear,' said Flora, who had a decided tendency to be always honest when she gave herself time to think about it, 'it's as well to leave that alone now, for I couldn't undertake to say after all, but it doesn't signify lie down a little!'
-- 'I don't see,' returned Mr Flintwinch, scraping his horny cheek, 'that it need signify much to you.
-- What does it signify when he knows all about it?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight.'
-- Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is.
-- She was sure they should be married some time or other, and it did not much signify when.
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