sometimes是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 不时， 有时， 间或，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names.
-- All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock pro-claimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes appre-hensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the con-solation of knowing it.
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the broken reply was, 'Wait!It would kill me if I saw her too soon.'
-- Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neigh-bourhood could endure a lamplighter.
-- But, the gaol was a vile place, in which most kinds of debauchery and villainy were prac-tised, and where dire diseases were bred, that came into court with the prisoners, and sometimes rushed straight from the dock at my Lord Chief Justice himself, and pulled him off the bench.
-- I have sometimes sat alone here of an eve-ning, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by-and-bye into our lives.'
-- The complaint had sometimes made it-self audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner.
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：
-- What strange things men no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads!
-- He then cried as loud as he could, but no one beard him; the snow drift-ed and the sledge flew on, and sometimes it gave a jerk as though they were driving over hedges and ditches.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the difference was that Oblonsky, as he was doing the same as every one did, laughed complacently and good-humoredly, while Levin laughed without complacency and sometimes angrily.
-- So we cut our nails; sometimes we turn up our sleeves.
-- A roll will sometimes smell so good one can't resist it."
-- He's a very nervous man, and is sometimes out of humor, it's true, but then he is often very nice.
-- You know we have sometimes laughed at him for putting in at every word: 'Dolly's a marvelous woman.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.
-- Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise of the instruments; these closed the procession.
-- Fix spent several hours turning these things over in his mind, sometimes thinking that all was lost, then persuading himself that Fogg was ignorant of his presence, and then undecided what course it was best to take.
-- During the day she kept along the coast, where the currents were favourable; the coast, irregular in profile, and visible sometimes across the clearings, was at most five miles distant.
-- Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In college, they had gone to dances together, though as a dancer Martin was more spirited than accurate, and his partners sometimes had difficulty in deciding just what he was trying to dance.
-- And if sometimes I feel an exile, cold--I had to get out of Germany one time for refusing to sing Die Wacht am Rhein and trying to kill a cavalry captain--he was a stout fellow--I had to choke him--you see I am boasting, but I was a lifely Kerl thirty years ago!Ah!So!
-- She trilled, "Dr. Brumfit, you're terribly learned and so on and so forth, and sometimes in English classes I'm simply scared to death of you, but other times you're nothing but a bad small boy, and I won't have you teasing the girls.
-- Sometimes I wonder if it isn't just laziness.
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