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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "On the same line," resumed the young captain, "there is the syllable GLAS and if we add that to the GOW we found in the English paper, we get the whole word GLASGOW at once.
-- About a mile further he stopped again, and leaving the straight route, made a circuit of some miles north and south, and then returned and fell back in his place at the head of the troop, without saying a syllable as to what he hoped or feared.
-- "Well, the third and last time," replied Paganel, "it will be the first syllable of the word INDIGENCE."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
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：
-- It was, in fact, neither the moment nor the occasion for an Indian to boast of his exploits; and it is probably that, had Heyward neglected to inquire, not another syllable would, just then, have been ut-tered on the subject.
-- For near half an hour, not a syllable was uttered, or scarcely a look cast aside; a grave and meditative silence being the ordinary succession to ev-ery scene of violence and commotion among these beings, who were alike so impetuous and yet so self-restrained.
-- Not a limb was moved, nor was a breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of Tamenund.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to tell our adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and without omitting one single detail.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fathers and Sons, by Turgenev," said the little foreigner, pronouncing every syllable distinctly.
-- The first syllable was high and slow, the second dropped down.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Edward Ferrars, the very young man I used to joke with you about (but however, as it turns out, I am monstrous glad there was never any thing in it), Mr. Edward Ferrars, it seems, has been engaged above this twelvemonth to my cousin Lucy! There's for you, my dear! And not a creature knowing a syllable of the matter, except Nancy! Could you have believed such a thing possible? There is no great wonder in their liking one another; but that matters should be brought so forward between them, and nobody suspect it! THAT is strange! I never happened to see them together, or I am sure I should have found it out directly.
-- I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it.
-- She caught every syllable with panting eagerness; her hand, unknowingly to herself, closely pressed her sister's, and tears covered her cheeks.
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