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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not dined at the Maison Vauquer; the boarders probably would think that he would walk home at daybreak from the dance, as he had done sometimes on former occasions, after a fete at the Prado, or a ball at the Odeon, splashing his silk stockings thereby, and ruining his pumps.
-- He doesn't give you much himself, but he sometimes sends you with a message to ladies who fork out famous tips; they are dressed grandly, too."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
-- But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
-- Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
-- My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager de-32 Frankensteinsire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.
-- Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I think the Abolitionists have got the right idea."
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
-- It was Gerald's headstrong and impetuous nature in her that gave them concern,and they sometimes feared they would not be able to conceal her damaging qualities until she had made a good match.
-- She hadvery little interest in Wade and sometimes it was difficult to remember that he was actually hers.
-- Sometimes Scarlett found it hard to dissemble her feelings, for she still thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladiesand her vagueness and vaporings irritated her unendurably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- "I sometimes have sick fancies," she went on, "and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play.
-- Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds, but that there was a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if some one sometimes walked there, and that Estella was walking away from me even then.
-- Of course there was a public-house in the village, and of course Joe liked sometimes to smoke his pipe there.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she got there, and saw that it was no other than Snowdrop, who, as she thought, had been dead a long while, she choked with rage, and fell down and died: but Snowdrop and the prince lived and reigned hap-pily over that land many, many years; and sometimes they went up into the mountains, and paid a visit to the little dwarfs, who had been so kind to Snowdrop in her time of need.
-- Or when stories were told by the fire at night which made the flesh creep, the listeners sometimes said: 'Oh, it makes us shudder!'
-- From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
-- I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which es-caped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I appre-hended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.
-- I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
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