murmur是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 低沉连续的声音; 诉怨，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：
-- But when the long murmur of the distant ocean fell on their ears, the exhausted men forgot their fatigue, and ran up the sandhills with surprising agility.
-- In the morning at sunrise, a dull murmur fell on their ears, and announced their approach to the Indian Ocean.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy, throbbing murmur once again.
-- And a new sound min-gled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low, constant murmur of the sea.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They forget the promise they made you when they set out from Argos, that you should not return till you had sacked the town of Troy, and, like children or widowed women, they murmur and would set off homeward.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could hear the murmur of voices for the next ten minutes, then a cry of surprise, a stirring of feet, a chair flung aside, a bark of laughter, quick steps to the door, and Cuss appeared, his face white, his eyes staring over his shoulder.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches.
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：
-- A low murmur of applause announced that the compli-ment of the tribe was favorably received.
-- Every eye rolled sullenly toward the individual indicated by the simple gesture, and a low, threatening murmur passed through the crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A low murmur from the two replied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an universal murmur to the same effect, though no man articulated a word.
-- The bystanders, on and off the dining-room chairs, raised a murmur of sympathy with Mrs. Pegler, and Mr. Gradgrind felt himself innocently placed in a very distressing predicament, when Mr. Bounderby, who had never ceased walking up and down, and had every moment swelled larger and larger, and grown redder and redder, stopped short.
-- A low murmur of pity went round the throng, and the women wept aloud, as this form, almost without form, was moved very slowly from its iron deliverance, and laid upon the bed of straw.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the deep, still silence of the night had he at last heard that sweet murmur about which we were all so anxious?
-- But what is the meaning of this murmur of waves, this unmistakable moaning of the salt-sea billows?
-- Every time any of the lugubrious groanings which were to be distinguished in the hollows around fell upon my ears, I fancied I heard the distant murmur of the great cities above my head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite a walk, by mysterious staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment, hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English house-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur of the Grand Canal laving the doorways below, where his gondolas and gondoliers attended his pleasure, drowsily swinging in a little forest of piles.
-- They always received a reference of this kind with a low murmur of response, as if it were convincing; and the Defaulter, however black and discomfited before, always cheered up a little in making it.
-- The reply was given in a murmur of 'Shame!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All eyes turned toward the bridal party, and a murmur of amazement went through the throng, for neither bride nor groom removed their masks.
-- What went on there, Meg could not see, but shrieks of laughter were heard, followed by the murmur of voices and a great flapping of newspapers.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gazed into the lighted street when Minnie brought her into the front room, and wondered at the sounds, the movement, the murmur of the vast city which stretched for miles and miles in every direction.
-- There was a general shuffle and murmur of approval.
-- There was a murmur of recognition.
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