whisper是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 耳语； 私下说， 偷偷告诉n. 耳语； 传闻，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：
-- This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, 'Who are they?'
-- Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on an-other, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.
-- They whisper at the fountain, that although condemned to death he will not be executed; they say that petitions have been presented in Paris, showing that he was enraged and 240 A tale of two citiesmade mad by the death of his child; they say that a petition has been presented to the King himself.
-- 'Again; on the other hand, they whisper at the fountain,' resumed the countryman, 'that he is brought down into our country to be executed on the spot, and that he will very certainly be executed.
-- They even whisper that because he has slain Monseigneur, and because Monseigneur was the father of his tenants serfs what you will he will be ex-ecuted as a parricide.
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：
-- The other, however, retained sufficient presence of mind to whisper to him, ''Tis a bet, and I have won it!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He listened, and heard in a strange, mad whisper words repeated: "I did not appreciate it, did not make enough of it.
-- "He's killing her," said Betsy in a whisper full of meaning.
-- Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.
-- "Mother!She often comes to see me, and when she comes..." he was beginning, but he stopped, noticing that the nurse was saying something in a whisper to his mother, and that in his mother's face there was a look of dread and something like shame, which was so strangely unbecoming to her.
-- At the other door there was the sound of steps, and the nurse in a scared whisper said, "He's coming," and gave Anna her hat.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But always they have new reassuring cocktail-hours at the Ice House, until they die, and the other lost men come to their funerals and whisper one to another that they ARE going Home.
-- Night and day I'll nurse you-- the least whisper and I'll be awake.
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：
-- He walked, looking at the ground; suddenly someone seemed to whisper in his ear; he lifted his head and saw that he was standing at the very gate of the house.
-- Nastasya, show a light!I assure you,' he went on in a half whisper on the stairs- 'that he was almost beat-ing the doctor and me this afternoon!Do you understand?
-- 'He has got some terrible plan,' she said in a half whisper to herself, almost shuddering.
-- In spite of her continu-al anxiety that the dishes should be passed round correctly and that everyone should taste them, in spite of the agonis-ing cough which interrupted her every minute and seemed to have grown worse during the last few days, she hastened to pour out in a half whisper to Raskolnikov all her sup-pressed feelings and her just indignation at the failure of the dinner, interspersing her remarks with lively and un-controllable laughter at the expense of her visitors and especially of her landlady.
-- 'It all depends on you, on you, on you alone,' he begin with glowing eyes, almost in a whisper and hardly able to utter the words for emotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were the admiration of Mrs. Gummidgeand Peggotty, who used to whisper of an evening when we satlovingly, on our little locker side by side.
-- How well I recollect our sitting there, talking in whispers; or theirtalking, and my respectfully listening, I ought rather to say; themoonlight falling a little way into the room, through the window,painting a pale window on the floor, and the greater part of us inshadow, except when Steerforth dipped a match into aphosphorus-box, when he wanted to look for anything on theboard, and shed a blue glare over us that was gone directly!Acertain mysterious feeling, consequent on the darkness, the secrecyof the revel, and the whisper in which everything was said, stealsover me again, and I listen to all they tell me with a vague feelingof solemnity and awe, which makes me glad that they are all sonear, and frightens me (though I feign to laugh) when Traddlespretends to see a ghost in the corner.
-- But, Trotwood, come here,' getting me close tohim, that he might whisper very softly: 'why did she give himmoney, boy, in the moonlight?'
-- It was not easy to answer her inquiries; still less to whisper Mr.Peggotty, when Mr. Micawber brought him in, that I had given theletter, and all was well.
-- I believe Imay have heard some whisper of that distant thought, in the oldunhappy loss or want of something never to be realised, of which Ihad been sensible.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The party did not break up with-out Emma's being positively secured for the two first dances by the hero of the evening, nor without her overhearing Mr. Weston whisper to his wife, 'He has asked her, my dear.
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