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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The heart of a wife merely," floated in a whisper about the ears of the three, and turning they saw Bathsheba in the midst of them.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is just as I guessed," said Vautrin, leaning over to whisper in Mme.
-- Michonneau, in a whisper to the student.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sweet and beloved Elizabeth!I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the ap-ple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you believe it, this very morninghe said to Mary and she's only sixteen: 'Now, Missy ...' " And the voice went off into a whisper as thegranddaughter slipped out to try to induce Mr. McRae to return to his seat in the shade.
-- Merriwether at the top of her voice, Mrs. Elsing in an elegantdie-away drawl and Mrs. Whiting in a distressed whisper which showed how much she hated to speak of such things.
-- She saw the doctor lean down from the platform and whisper something to Rhett Butler.
-- in a childish whisper andsat down, tears stinging her eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such times as when your sister is on the Ram-page, Pip," Joe sank his voice to a whisper and glanced at the door, "candor compels fur to admit that she is a Buster."
-- She answered in a low whisper and with caution: "I had been shut up in these rooms a long time (I don't know how long; you know what time the clocks keep here), when I told him that I wanted a little girl to rear and love, and save from my fate.
-- Of the two sitters one held the rudder-lines, and looked at us attentively,--as did all the rowers; the other sitter was wrapped up, much as Provis was, and seemed to shrink, and whisper some instruction to the steerer as he looked at us.
-- He told me in a whisper that they had gone down fiercely locked in each other's arms, and that there had been a struggle under water, and that he had disengaged himself, struck out, and swum away.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, the next time I had the honour to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, as I could perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, till I had a whisper from a cer-tain person, 'that Flimnap and Bolgolam had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of dis-affection;' from which I am sure my heart was wholly free.
-- My con-ductor pressed me forward, conjuring me in a whisper 'to give no offence, which would be highly resented;' and there-fore I durst not so much as stop my nose.
-- I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had nev-er seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, 'that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their princi-pals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With resentments, because of the wrong that had been done her, if it were indeed a whisper of the truth.
-- Whisper very softly.
-- Every sound of insects in the air, every stirring of the leaves, every whisper among these men, made Sissy tremble, for she thought it was a cry at the bottom of the pit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so terrible an idea that I scarcely dared to whisper it to myself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then started the whisper of Lady Chatterley's child.
-- And between, the bracken was lifting its brown curled heads, like legions of young snakes with a new secret to whisper to Eve.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A whisper passed among the elder collegians that he had been seen at a mock auction in Moorfields, pretending to buy plated articles for massive silver, and paying for them with the greatest liberality in bank notes; but it never reached her ears.
-- Otherwise, Affery never said or did anything to attract the attention of the two clever ones towards her in any marked degree, except on certain occasions, generally at about the quiet hour towards bed-time, when she would suddenly dart out of her dim corner, and whisper with a face of terror to Mr Flintwinch, reading the paper near Mrs Clennam's little table:'There, Jeremiah!Now!What's that noise?'
-- As if she had done him a wrong which her tenderness could hardly repair, she sat by him in his sleep, at times softly kissing him with suspended breath, and calling him in a whisper by some endearing name.
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