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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- "Indeed, Madam," replied Paganel, "I know few islands without some tale of the kind appertaining to them, and the romance of your immortal countryman, Daniel Defoe, has been often enough realized before his day."
-- "My second tale will answer you, my boy," said Paganel: "One day a missionary was reproving a cannibal for the horrible custom, so abhorrent to God's laws, of eating human flesh!‘And beside,' said he, ‘it must be so nasty!'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are laughing, and I that man's tale impressed me so much, that I dreamt of it afterwards; yes, I dreamt of those five minutes 芒聙娄' He looked at his listeners again with that same serious, searching expression.
-- Totski ended his tale with the same dignity that had characterized its commencement.
-- 'Yes, that wall of Meyer's could tell a tale if it liked.
-- 'If only they would allow me to explain all to his excel-lency!If I could but be permitted to tell my tale to him!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will ap-pear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.'
-- He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.
-- 'And you, my love,' said the bridegroom, turning to her, 'is there no tale you know?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a mere flask of the golden water in the tale became a full fountain when it was poured out, so Mr Meagles seemed to feel that this small spice of Barnacle imparted to his table the flavour of the whole family-tree.
-- But, when she told him that it was only a Fairy Tale she had one day made up for Maggy, and that there was nothing in it which she wouldn't be ashamed to tell again to anybody else, even if she could remember it, he left the subject where it was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A. SNODGRASS THE MASKED MARRIAGE (A Tale Of Venice) Gondola after gondola swept up to the marble steps, and left its lovely load to swell the brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count Adelon.
-- The girls listened with interest, for the tale was ro-mantic, and somewhat pathetic, as most of the characters died in the end.
-- The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.
-- She has had some experience, and got a prize for a tale in the BLARNEYSTONE BANNER.'
-- The tale will be out next week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I believe it, strange as it is; and perhaps I may be an old fool for doing so,' rejoined the doctor; 'but I don't think it is exactly the tale for a practical police-officer, nevertheless.'
-- 'You will tell me a different tale one of these days,' said Harry, colouring without any perceptible reason.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some pictures, several rugs, a few small pieces of bric-a-brac, and the tale of contents is told.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he made every one of them tell him a tale every night; and he kept that up till he had hogged a thousand and one tales that way, and then he put them all in a book, and called it Domesday Book which was a good name and stated the case.
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