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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What one does in one's life has peu de rapport, it doesn't signify much."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No wonder!dashing about with his curricle and hunters!Well, it don't signify talking; but when a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him.
-- And after all, what did it signify to my character in the opinion of Marianne and her friends, in what language my answer was couched? It must have been only to one end.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- David nodded, as much to signify his acquiescence with the terms; and then Hawkeye, casting another observant glance over this followers made the signal to proceed.
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