tale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 故事， 传说，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens (1859)Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- A tale of two citiesII The Mail t was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in INovember, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 32 Andersen's Fairy Tales She is so pretty, clever, and so kind Oh, did she know what's hidden in my mind A tale of old.
-- All, all was over every tale must end at last.
-- But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay.
-- 'Your tale is very affect-ing.
-- 'Yes, if a fairy tale would come of its own accord; but they are proud and haughty, and come only when they choose.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, there is a tale about Buzulukov--simply lovely!"
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：
-- 'It's not his own tale he is telling,' he muttered as though to himself, and suddenly his eyes rested on Raskolnikov again.
-- 'You are not the murderer!You can't be!It's not your own tale you are telling!'
-- 'He-he-he!You noticed then that I said to Nikolay just now that it was not his own tale he was telling?'
-- 'A-ah!Not a sound was heard, not a sight was seen, but I scent the Russian 芒聙娄 how does it go on in the fairy tale 芒聙娄 I've forgotten!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard whichwas at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdawslooking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knewhow much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, ifany sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creakingshoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress,that vagabond was made for the next two days.
-- His lifeis a mystery to the partner of his joys and sorrows- I again allude tohis wife- and if I should assure you that beyond knowing that it ispassed from morning to night at the office, I now know less of itthan I do of the man in the south, connected with whose mouth thethoughtless children repeat an idle tale respecting cold plumporridge, I should adopt a popular fallacy to express an actual fact.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- Moreover, should he resolve not to return at all, a tale of his being alive and being in the neighbourhood would be awkward; and he was anxious to acquire a knowledge of his wife's temporal affairs before deciding which to do.
-- That Bathsheba could not endure this man was evident; in fact, he was continually coming to her with some tale or other, by which he might creep into favour at the expense of persons maligned.
-- He came in the afternoon, and his face, as the kiln glow shone upon it, told the tale sufficiently well.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
-- There is no need to tack a tale together; the thing is self- evident.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tale was quickly told, but it awakened various trains of reflection.
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