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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the emperor holds one end of the stick, and his first minister the other; sometimes the minister has it entirely to himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within or sometimes only maim him and distort him!
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was, and even to appear uncertain whether it might be a business, or a political party, or a profession of faith.
-- The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
-- Sometimes they played tricks upon him; but they never knew how he felt them, and shrunk up, when he was alone with me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they gave vent to a convulsive laugh, but by no cha nce did they smile.
-- Hans advanced as calmly as if he had been walking over Salisbury Plain; sometimes he would disappear behind huge blocks of stone, and we momentarily lost sight of him.
-- Sometimes we gazed through a succession of arches, its course very like the aisles of a Gothic cathedral.
-- The sides were sloping walls, which sometimes became quite vertical.
-- Sometimes there could be no doubt that we were going downwards.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
-- Yet women sometimes fell for him...English-women too.
-- Connie wondered sometimes if it were a sort of mask to disarm opposition, because it was almost too fixed.
-- He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
-- Sometimes indigestion interferes with me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.
-- I know I might keep it off if I only tried hard enough, and sometimes I do try hard enough, and at other times I don't and won't.
-- Sometimes a face would appear behind the dingy glass of a window, and would fade away into the gloom as if it had seen enough of life and had vanished out of it.
-- Sometimes Little Dorrit was employed at her needle, sometimes not, sometimes appeared as a humble visitor: which must have been her character on the occasion of his arrival.
-- He sat in an arm-chair with a cushion, and sometimes wheezed so, for minutes together, that he couldn't turn the key.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dear, it's re-ally dreadful, for sometimes she is so bad her frock is up to her knees, and she can't come to school.
-- 'Is Beth the rosy one, who stays at home good deal and sometimes goes out with a little basket?'
-- I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are.
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