reply是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. (to) 回答， 答复， 以…作答，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to 'Is it a bear.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the broken reply was, 'Wait!It would kill me if I saw her too soon.'
-- Yes,' was the grim reply of Monsieur Defarge.
-- 'No,' said Mr. Lorry, in reply to the House; 'I have re-ferred it, I think, to everybody now here, and no one can tell me where this gentleman is to be found.'
-- 'The reply to this was made by him who had spoken sec-ond.
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：
-- This reply fully satisfied the Councillor; the title suited 26 Andersen's Fairy Talesthe dress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not put out of temper even by the sight of the peasants' horses and colts trampling down his young grass (he told a peasant he met to drive them out), nor by the sarcastic and stupid reply of the peasant Ipat, whom he met on the way, and asked, "Well, Ipat, shall we soon be sowing?"
-- "Yes, yes, to be sure; it does waste a lot of time," the doctor responded vaguely to some reply of Sludin's he had not caught.
-- And neither of them gave an answer, or even a hint, in reply to the question what he, Levin, and all the Russian peasants and landowners, were to do with their millions of hands and millions of acres, to make them as productive as possible for the common weal.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch waited serenely to speak, obviously with a convincing reply ready.
-- Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg did not reply at once; but Fix, having pointed out the man, who was walking up and down in front of the station, Mr. Fogg went up to him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pickerbaugh replied by return mail--good old Pickerbaugh!--but the reply was, "I cannot tell you how grieved I am that I cannot for the moment possibly get away from Washington but am sure that in your earnestness you exaggerate strength of opposition, write me freely, at any time."
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：
-- In reply Raskolnikov sank languidly back on the pillow, put his hands behind his head and gazed at the ceiling.
-- She locked herself in, made no reply to my bonjour through the door; she was up at seven o'clock, the samovar was taken into her from the kitchen.
-- 'Very early this morning we got a note from Pyotr Petrovitch in reply to our letter announcing our arrival.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The anxiety I underwent, in the interval which necessarily elapsedbefore a reply could be received to her letter to Mr. Murdstone,was extreme; but I made an endeavour to suppress it, and to be asagreeable as I could in a quiet way, both to my aunt and Mr. Dick.
-- At length the reply from Mr.Murdstone came, and my aunt informed me, to my infinite terror,that he was coming to speak to her himself on the next day.
-- Since you ask me, my love, I reply that I have not.
-- 'Sir,' said Mr. Micawber, 'I rejoice to reply that they are, likewise,in the enjoyment of salubrity.'
-- I hurriedly made him a reply to the effect, that Ihoped the error into which I had been betrayed by the desperatenature of my love, did not induce him to think me mercenary too?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.
-- Emma made as slight a reply as she could; but it was ful-ly sufficient for Mrs. Elton, who only wanted to be talking herself.
-- to which his prompt reply was, 'Most readily, Mrs. Weston, if you will dance with me.'
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