sex是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 性别， 性，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting- parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.
-- Whatever they thought about her sex morals, her infidelity to United Brethrenism, and her general dementia, they had not suspected that she could commit such an obscenity as smoking.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A fashion book is a lot of pictures, coloured, and they come to the tailors here every Saturday, by post from abroad, to show folks how to dress, the male sex as well as the female.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To wish her dead,' said I, 'may be the kindest wish that one of herown sex could bestow upon her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very much mistaken if your sex in general would not think such beauty, and such tem-per, the highest claims a woman could possess.'
-- He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recol-lections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.
-- 'I have very little to say for my own conduct. I was tempted by his attentions, and allowed myself to appear pleased. An old story, probably a common case and no more than has happened to hundreds of my sex before; and yet it may not be the more excusable in one who sets up as I do for Understanding.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GABRIEL'S RESOLVE THE VISIT THE MISTAKEThe only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.
-- Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided, the single one of her sex that the room contained.
-- Silent and alone, he had remained in moody meditation on woman's ways, deeming as essentials of the whole sex the accidents of the single one of their number he had ever closely beheld.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the exception of desperately ill and severely wounded men, Scarlett's was a completely feminized world andthis irked her, for she neither liked nor trusted her own sex and, worse still, was always bored by it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you remember the sex of the child?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'he could discover great holes in my skin; that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of a boar, and my complexion made up of several colours al-together disagreeable:' although I must beg leave to say for myself, that I am as fair as most of my sex and country, and very little sunburnt by all my travels.
-- 'At other times, if a female stranger came among them, three or four of her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and smell her all over; and then turn off with gestures, that seemed to express contempt and dis-dain.'
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：
-- And however one might sentimentalize it, this sex busi-ness was one of the most ancient, sordid connexions and subjections.
-- They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.
-- That the poets and talkers about sex did not seem to have taken sufficiently into account.
-- Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.
-- And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To think better of it,' returned the gallant Blandois, 'would be to slight a lady; to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex; and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character!'
-- 'My sex disqualifies me,' she proceeded with merely a slight turn of her eyes in Jeremiah's direction, 'from taking a responsible part in the business, even if I had the ability; and therefore Mr Flintwinch combines my interest with his own, and conducts it.
-- He even escorted the Bride up-stairs into Mr Merdle's presence; but this must be considered as an act of homage to the sex (of which he was an admirer, being notoriously captivated by the charms of a certain Duchess), and not as a committal of himself with the family.
-- It was always possible; the sex being so charming.
-- 'Over and above which,' said Flora, 'I earnestly beg you as the dearest thing that ever was if you'll still excuse the familiarity from one who moves in very different circles to let Arthur understand that I don't know after all whether it wasn't all nonsense between us though pleasant at the time and trying too and certainly Mr F. did work a change and the spell being broken nothing could be expected to take place without weaving it afresh which various circumstances have combined to prevent of which perhaps not the least powerful was that it was not to be, I am not prepared to say that if it had been agreeable to Arthur and had brought itself about naturally in the first instance I should not have been very glad being of a lively disposition and moped at home where papa undoubtedly is the most aggravating of his sex and not improved since having been cut down by the hand of the Incendiary into something of which I never saw the counterpart in all my life but jealousy is not my character nor ill-will though many faults.'
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