tenor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (支票) 限期, 男高音歌唱家, 进程, 大意，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 6 When the ceremony of plighting troth was over, the beadle spread before the lectern in the middle of the church a piece of pink silken stuff, the choir sang a complicated and elaborate psalm, in which the bass and tenor sang responses to one another, and the priest turning round pointed the bridal pair to the pink silk rug.
-- On the stage the singer, bowing and smiling, with bare shoulders flashing with diamonds, was, with the help of the tenor who had given her his arm, gathering up the bouquets that were flying awkwardly over the footlights.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have all the manifestations of a soft and rich treble; I can, by especial aid, carry a full tenor to the highest letter; but we lack coun-ter and bass!Yon officer of the king, who hesitated to admit me to his company, might fill the latter, if one may judge from the intonations of his voice in common dialogue.'
-- 'Judge not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appear-ances,' said the lady, smiling; 'though Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion, believe me, his natu-ral tones are better fitted for a mellow tenor than the bass you heard.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no vacancy for a tenor in the venerablePile for which this city is so justly eminent; and he has- in short, hehas contracted a habit of singing in public-houses, rather than insacred edifices.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, in the quiet of Boldwood's parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
-- The Dowager for a moment gave him an angry look; but tossed it off with her head and her fan, and pursued the tenor of her way in her former manner.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had also to anticipate how her visit would pass, the quiet tenor of their usual employments, the vexatious interruptions of Mr. Collins, and the gaieties of their intercourse with Rosings.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was slightly depressed at the tenor of the note for the first few minutes, but soon recovered.
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