utter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 说， 发出(声音) a. 彻底的， 完全的，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：
-- The girl seemed too shy to utter a word at first, but Lady Helena quickly relieved her embarrassment by saying, with an encouraging smile: "You wish to speak to me, I think?"
-- Lady Helena and Miss Grant were too astonished to be able to utter a single word.
-- The whole human race is shut up in himself, and when death comes, which utter loneliness will make terrible, he will be like the last man on the last day of the world.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her ves-sels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of ship-building and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
-- * * * Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal" (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
-- According to this little plan of theirs, the Guernsey-man, under cover of an interpreter's office, was to tell the Captain what he pleased, but as coming from Stubb; and as for Stubb, he was to utter any nonsense that should come uppermost in him during the interview.
-- But first, be it recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied measurement I please.
-- Still more, for the ample fins, I here saw but a few disordered joints; and in place of the weighty and majestic, but boneless flukes, an utter blank!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the girl's voice was in his ear, beseeching him in such tones of agony to remember her, that he had not the heart to utter it.
-- said Rose, when Oliver had been one day feebly endeavouring to utter the words of thankfulness that rose to his pale lips; 'you shall have many opportunities of serving us, if you will.
-- He continued to utter the most fearful imprecations, until the driver had resumed his seat; and when they were once more on their way, they could see him some distance behind: beating his feet upon the ground, and tearing his hair, in transports of real or pretended rage.
-- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself!How could I ever have know happiness again!'
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth preserved as steady a silence as either Mrs. Hurst or Miss Bingley; and even Lydia was too much fatigued to utter more than the occasional exclamation of 'Lord, how tired I am!'
-- Here, leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty en-tirely behind.
-- But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affect-ed, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room.
-- repeated Elizabeth, in utter amazement.
-- Its effect was most extraordinary; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- " Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only did Carrie feel the drag of desire for all which was new and pleasing in apparel for women, but she noticed too, with a touch at the heart, the fine ladies who elbowed and ignored her, brushing past in utter disregard of her presence, themselves eagerly enlisted in the materials which the store contained.
-- Then, with a pathos which struck home because of its utter simplicity, "He shall not suffer long."
-- His face and body retained utter composure.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt ill. His eyes saw everything double, his legs trembled, his tongue was dry, and, try as he might, he could not utter a single word.
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