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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few, and they not the least powerful and terrific of the band, threw lowering looks, in which the fiercest passion was only tem-pered by habitual self-command, at those captives who still remained in their power, while one or two even gave vent to their malignant feelings by the most menacing gestures, against which neither the sex nor the beauty of the sisters was any protection.
-- She waited until he had departed, and then turning to the native, with the dignity of her sex in her voice and man-ner, she added: 'What would Le Renard say to the daughter of Munro?'
-- Her voice became choked, and, for an instant, she was silent; then, advancing a step nigher to Duncan, who was supporting her unconscious sister, she continued, in more subdued tones, but in which feeling and the habits of her sex maintained a fearful struggle: 'I need not tell you to cherish the treasure you will possess.
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：
-- Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
-- And you find some woman, coarse and low and vulgar, some beastly creature in whom all the horror of sex is blatant, and you fall upon her like a wild animal.
-- It is possible that Strickland hated the normal release of sex because it seemed to him brutal by comparison with the satisfaction of artistic creation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About this time the female onager gave birth to a young one which belonged to the same sex as its mother, and which throve capitally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the ladies being together under these circumstances, it was extremely natural that the discourse should turn upon the propensity of mankind to tyrannize over the weaker sex, and the duty that developed upon the weaker sex to resist that tyranny and assert their rights and dignity.
-- 'There she is,' said Quilp, stopping short at the door, and wrinkling up his eyebrows as he looked towards Miss Sally; 'there is the woman I ought to have married there is the beautiful Sarah there is the female who has all the charms of her sex and none of their weaknesses.
-- The landlord scratched his head, as if he thought the curse sometimes involved the other sex likewise; but he was prevented from making any remark to that effect, if he had it in contemplation to do so, by the schoolmaster's rejoinder.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was sex that turned a man into a broken half of a couple, the woman into the other broken half.
-- He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as a fulfilment.
-- He believed in sex marriage.
-- Always a man must be considered as the broken off fragment of a woman, and the sex was the still aching scar of the laceration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cunning, ferocity, and drunkeness in all its stages, were there, in their strongest aspect; and women: some with the last lingering tinge of their early freshness almost fading as you looked: others with every mark and stamp of their sex utterly beaten out, and presenting but one loathsome blank of profligacy and crime; some mere girls, others but young women, and none past the prime of life; formed the darkest and saddest portion of this dreary picture.
-- I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow, that I might avail myself, on the spot, of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the pos-sibility of all this?'
-- 'Elizabeth Bennet,' said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, 'is one of those young ladies who seek to rec-ommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds.
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In showing kindness to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman, though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a residence within his own manor.
-- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.
-- For the rest of his character and habits, they were marked, as far as Elinor could perceive, with no traits at all unusual in his sex and time of life.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to his order of mind, his confidence in the sex was not great.
-- He paid that peculiar deference to women which every member of the sex appreciates.
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