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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered it within an hour; but from the confusion of my mind, and the multiplicity of business fall-ing on me at once, my answer, instead of being sent with all the many other letters of that day, was locked up in my writ-ing-desk; and I, trusting that I had written enough, though but a few lines, to satisfy her, remained without any uneasiness. I was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her again speedily; but I made excuses for her, and was too busy, and may I add? too cheerful in my views to be captious. We removed to Windsor; and two days after-wards I received a parcel from her, my own letters all returned! and a few lines at the same time by the post, stating her extreme surprize at not having had the smallest reply to her last; and adding, that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued, and as it must be equally desir-able to both to have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, she now sent me, by a safe conveyance, all my letters, and requested, that if I could not directly command hers, so as to send them to Highbury within a week, I would forward them after that period to her at : in short, the full direction to Mr. Smallridge's, near Bristol, stared me in the face.
-- She went she had driven once unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected. The fear of being still unwelcome, determined her, though assured of their being at home, to wait in the passage, and send up her name. She heard Patty announcing it; but no such bustle succeeded as poor Miss Bates had before made so happily intelligible. No; she heard nothing but the instant reply of, 'Beg her to walk up;' and a moment afterwards she was met on the stairs by Jane herself, coming eagerly forward, as if no oth-er reception of her were felt sufficient. Emma had never seen her look so well, so lovely, so engaging.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This reply invariably operated like a rumour of cholera.
-- He always signed his name "Henery" strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.
-- Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream.
-- But if she was to be the practical woman she had intended to show herself, business must be carried on, introductions or none, and she ultimately acquired confidence enough to speak and reply boldly to men merely known to her by hearsay.
-- The reply would be "Farmer Everdene's niece; took on Weatherbury Upper Farm; turned away the baily, and swears she'll do everything herself."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desire the com-pany of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rhett made no reply but brought the tree limb down on the horse's back with a cruel force that made the animalleap forward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remonstrated, for he made no reply at all.
-- Wopsle taking the bass, and asserting with a tremendously strong voice (in reply to the inquisitive bore who leads that piece of music in a most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody's private affairs) that he was the man with his white locks flowing, and that he was upon the whole the weakest pilgrim going.
-- Mike looked at his cap, and looked at the floor, and looked at the ceiling, and looked at the clerk, and even looked at me, before beginning to reply in a nervous manner, "We've dressed him up like--" when my guardian blustered out,--"What?
-- This reply seemed agreeable to Mr. Jaggers, who said, "I thought so!"
-- Whereupon I made him the extreme reply that I believed he knew where I was to be found.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa would suspend the occupation of the moment, whatever it was, and look for the reply as earnestly as Sissy did.
-- Because;' here was something to demonstrate, and it set him up again; 'because the reply depends so materially, Louisa, on the sense in which we use the expression.
-- The reply was, 'What I know, I know; and what you know, you know.
-- 'Why, I come to be with this good lass pretty much as I came to be with you,' said the old woman, cheerfully, taking the reply upon herself.
-- I'll give you to understand, in reply to that, that there unquestionably is an incompatibility of the first magnitude to be summed up in this that your daughter don't properly know her husband's merits, and is not impressed with such a sense as would become her, by George!of the honour of his alliance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to reply when he stopped me.
-- To this there was no reply possible.
-- I looked curiously at Hans to see what reply he would make to this terrific announcement.
-- My sole reply was to shake my head with an air of deep incredulity.
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