syllable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 音节，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side.
-- 'Jacques,' returned Defarge, drawing himself up, 'if ma-dame my wife undertook to keep the register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it not a syllable of it.
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：
-- Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with dignified condescension; while a pretty canary, as yellow as gold, that had lately been brought from his sunny fragrant home, began to sing aloud.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without vouchsafing a syllable in reply to Vassenka's protestations that it had been quite dry there, Levin worked in silence with the coachman at extricating the horses.
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：
-- Reflect-ing, probably from certain fairly unmistakable signs, that he would get nothing in this 'cabin' by attempting to over-awe them, the gentleman softened somewhat, and civilly, though with some severity, emphasising every syllable of his question, addressed Zossimov: 'Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, a student, or former-ly a student?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At thecoach-window, as at the dinner-party, he hovered about us withouta moment's intermission, like a great vulture: gorging himself onevery syllable that I said to Agnes, or Agnes said to me.
-- Mr. Micawber, whose impetuosity I had restrained thus far withthe greatest difficulty, and who had repeatedly interposed with thefirst syllable of SCOUNdrel!without getting to the second, nowburst forward, drew the ruler from his breast (apparently as adefensive weapon), and produced from his pocket a foolscapdocument, folded in the form of a large letter.
-- 'Agnes, my dear, as long as Ibelieved it had been really made away with by your father, Iwouldn't- and, my dear, I didn't, even to Trot, as he knows-breathe a syllable of its having been placed here for investment.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case, you see, is (but this is quite between our-selves: I did not mention a syllable of it in the other room.
-- She was in the adjoining chamber while she still spoke, and opening the casement there, immediately called Mr. Knightley's attention, and every syllable of their conversa-tion was as distinctly heard by the others, as if it had passed within the same apartment.
-- When she was half-way up the set, the whole group were exactly behind her, and she would no longer allow her eyes to watch; but Mr. Elton was so near, that she heard every syllable of a dialogue which just then took place between him and Mrs. Weston; and she perceived that his wife, who was standing immediately above her, was not only listening also, but even encourag-ing him by significant glances. The kind-hearted, gentle Mrs. Weston had left her seat to join him and say, 'Do not you dance, Mr.
-- 'No, sir,' replied his son, laughing, 'I seem to have had it from nobody. Very odd! I really was persuaded of Mrs. Weston's having mentioned it in one of her letters to En-scombe, many weeks ago, with all these particulars but as 420 Emmashe declares she never heard a syllable of it before, of course it must have been a dream.
-- 'Thank you,' said he, in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby, with his hands in his pockets, walked in impatient mortification up and down at the side of the long dining-table, while the spectators greedily took in every syllable of Mrs. Pegler's appeal, and at each succeeding syllable became more and more round-eyed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supposing Mistress Affery to have any power of election at the moment, her choice was decidedly to be choked; for she answered not a syllable to this adjuration, but, with her bare head wagging violently backwards and forwards, resigned herself to her punishment.
-- But she said not a syllable herself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
-- O head!thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarcely a syllable was uttered that did not relate to the game, except when Mrs. Jenkinson expressed her fears of Miss de Bourgh's be-ing too hot or too cold, or having too much or too little light.
-- Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
-- to Miss Lydia Bennet,' without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.
-- Not a syllable was uttered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again, when Bingley, who as well as the other had sat down, suddenly rose, and whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them."
-- Had she tried to speak, or had she been conscious of half Mrs. Jennings's well-meant but ill-judged attentions to her, this calmness could not have been maintained; but not a syllable escaped her lips; and the abstraction of her thoughts preserved her in ignorance of every thing that was passing before her.
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