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：
-- As they approached the little door of bark, a murmur of voices with-out announced that the friends and relatives of the invalid were gathered about the place, patiently awaiting a sum-mons to re-enter.
-- When the father had translated the meaning of the stranger's words into the Huron language, a suppressed murmur announced the satisfaction with which this intel-ligence was received.
-- The inhabitants of the village answered his salute by a low murmur of welcome, and encouraged him to advance by similar indications of friendship.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a single murmur escaped from their lips.
-- Cyrus Harding looked at his dog, and those of his companions who were near him might have heard him murmur these words, "Yes, I believe that Top knows more than we do about a great many things."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- There was a general murmur (and perhaps a very sincere one, for they were but boys) in the negative; and the tall boy, perhaps as sincerely as any of them, called those about him to witness that he had only shouted in a whisper.
-- The child had not only to endure the accumulated hardships of their destitute condition, but to bear the reproaches of her grandfather, who began to murmur at having been led away from their late abode, and demand that they should return to it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
-- The wood behind seemed full of the stir and murmur of a great company!
-- The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.
-- And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks' flight.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Morgan paused, but a hoarse murmur rose from the others.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breast was swelling with sobs; and I heard him murmur these words (the last which ever struck my ear):"Almighty God!enough!enough!"
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：
-- There was a long slow murmur from Hermione before she broke into speech, saying with a laconic indifference:"It is not always a question of possessions, is it?
扩展阅读：