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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunt-ed brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hes-sian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.
-- Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clat-tered by, and then exclaim, 'Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!'
-- he had much ado to maintain his seat; sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on an-other, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse's backbone, with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder.
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：
-- Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
-- It gushes forth like an oil-well, and the sympathetic pour out their sympathy with an abandon that is sometimes embarrassing to their victims.
-- Sometimes it seems as if they grudge the longevity which postpones their chance of an effective scene.
-- I'm reminded of those strange stories one sometimes hears of another personality entering into a man and driving out the old one.
-- Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
-- He was a man of about thirty, vigorous, active, clever, intelligent, gentle, and calm, sometimes naive, always merry, obliging, and honest.
-- Sometimes a stream ran through the underwood, which they crossed without difficulty.
-- In short, they sometimes went faster than they liked, and had some difficulty in keeping their feet; but hope gave them strength, for it was not at random that they made their way along the shore.
-- Sulphur springs sometimes stopped their way, and they had to go round them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man sat himself down in a chair, and with folded hands, looked sometimes at his grandson and sometimes at his strange companion, as if he were utterly powerless and had no resource but to leave them to do as they pleased.
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- I am very happy still, I ought to feel happier perhaps than I do, but you cannot think how it grieves me sometimes to see him alter so.'
-- Quilp looked at his legal adviser, and seeing that he was winking very much in the anguish of his pipe, that he sometimes shuddered when he happened to inhale its full flavour, and that he constantly fanned the smoke from him, was quite overjoyed and rubbed his hands with glee.
-- He would sit, for hours together, with Nell's small hand in his, playing with the fingers and stopping sometimes to smooth her hair or kiss her brow; and, when he saw that tears were glistening in her eyes, would look, amazed, about him for the cause, and forget his wonder even while he looked.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sewed, cleaned the rooms, cleaned the ikons with chalk, ground, cooked and served coffee, washed, and sometimes she read for the ladies.
-- On moonlit nights he seldom slept, because of the immense joy of life that pervaded him, and instead of sleeping, he sometimes rambled in the garden till daylight, absorbed in his thoughts and phantasies.
-- Their conversations were but momentary, when they met in the corridor, on the veranda, in the court-yard, or in the room of the aunts' old servant, Matriena Pavlovna, with whom Katiousha roomed, or in the servants' chamber, whither Nekhludoff sometimes went to drink tea.
-- She sometimes drank a little too much, but she never forgot herself.
-- Sometimes he looked at her as through blinking eyes or by moonlight, and then she seemed to him beautiful, fresh, pretty, clever and natural.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time, with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach.
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