sovereign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 主权的; 有最高统治权的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On the contrary, I have half a sovereign for you if you will give me a clear answer to my questions.'
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：
-- 'Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,' said he to his sovereign when he returned, 'the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.'
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：
-- For that matter, though the Oneidas do serve his sacred majesty, who is my sovereign lord and master, I should not have deliberated long about letting off 'killdeer' at the imp myself, had luck thrown him in my way.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So by the sovereign power of the House of Assembly of St. Hubert, and of His Excellency the Governor, the Cockney rat-catcher and his jiggling young colored assistant were commanded to cease to exist.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until he married he led the ordinary life of his fellows, gambling mildly on the Exchange, interested to the extent of a sovereign or two on the result of the Derby or the Oxford and Cambridge Race.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind asto squeeze orange-juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, ordissolve a peppermint-drop in it; and although I cannot assert thatthe flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it wasexactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, thelast thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank itgratefully, and was very sensible of his attention.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's a sovereign a-piece.
-- In one day afterwards, the Grand Jury found a True Bill against Christopher Nubbles for felony; and in two days from that finding, the aforesaid Christopher Nubbles was called upon to plead Guilty or Not Guilty to an Indictment for that he the said Christopher did feloniously abstract and steal from the dwelling-house and office of one Sampson Brass, gentleman, one Bank Note for Five Pounds issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; in contravention of the Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.
-- They say now that she've business in every bank in Casterbridge, and thinks no more of playing pitch-and-toss sovereign than you and I do pitch-halfpenny not a bit in the world, shepherd."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mystery he meant to penetrate, hoping by its means to gain a sovereign ascendency over this fair typical Parisian.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property,--much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.
-- "And that same man, remember," pursued the gentleman, throwing his finger at Mr. Wopsle heavily,--"that same man might be summoned as a juryman upon this very trial, and, having thus deeply committed himself, might return to the bosom of his family and lay his head upon his pillow, after deliberately swearing that he would well and truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!"
-- But happening to look up at Mrs. Pocket as she sat reading her book of dignities after prescribing Bed as a sovereign remedy for baby, I thought--Well--No, I wouldn't.
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：
-- Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
-- We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.
-- They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure.
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