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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paced restlessly up and down; sometimes stopping to examine the sails, or gaze inquiringly over the wide ocean, at the far horizon.
-- Sometimes at a sudden bend of the road, the MADRINA would disappear, and the little caravan had to guide themselves by the distant tinkle of her bell.
-- Sometimes they went perfectly smoothly along without jolts or jerks, and sometimes on the contrary, the plateau would reel and roll like a ship in a storm, coasting past abysses in which fragments of the mountain were falling, tearing up trees by the roots, and leveling, as if with the keen edge of an immense scythe, every projection of the declivity.
-- Sometimes the Major followed him, and sometimes Paganel, ready to lend a helping hand among the slippery peaks and dangerous precipices among which he was dragged by his rash and useless imprudence.
-- The enormous creature was fast approaching, sometimes hovering for awhile with outspread wings, and sometimes falling with the swiftness of inert bodies in space.
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：
-- Sometimes he will shut up a right of way and defy the parish to make him open it.
-- He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villag-ers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.
-- Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her, and sometimes I sus-pect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.
-- There is nothing so decep-tive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the ho-rizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
-- But sometimes a letter may be legible even when burned.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by them relative to their engagement, which in fact concealed nothing at all, she could not account; and it was so wholly contradictory to their general opinions and practice, that a doubt sometimes entered her mind of their being really engaged, and this doubt was enough to prevent her making any inquiry of Marianne.
-- But SOMETIMES they are.
-- Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It requires sometimes a richer soil, a better atmosphere to continue even a natural growth.
-- Deprived of his position, and struck by a few of the involved and baffling forces which sometimes play upon man, he would have been as helpless as Carrie--as helpless, as non-understanding, as pitiable, if you will, as she.
-- As it was, he received and gave, irritated sometimes by the little displays of selfish indifference, pleased at times by some show of finery which supposedly made for dignity and social distinction.
-- Therefore he was circumspect in all he did, and whenever he appeared in the public ways in the afternoon, or on Sunday, it was with his wife, and sometimes his children.
-- He sometimes saw them at table, and sometimes did not.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth wa-ter; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again.
-- He said sometimes it wouldn't talk without money.
-- Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den agin he spec he'll stay.
-- Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
-- Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
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