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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had spoken in a whisper all the way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silence, save for the whisper of the morning breeze.
-- Not a whisper of wind was stirring; the sea was like polished glass, the sky empty, the beach desolate.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold.
-- Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before even he had shift-ed his position, there was not an elephant in sight except Kala Nag, Pudmini, and the elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had gone.
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：
-- The wind blew unequally; sometimes sweeping heavily along the ground, seeming to whisper its moanings in the cold ears of the dead, then rising in a shrill and mournful whistling, it entered the forest with a rush that filled the air with the leaves and branches it scattered in its path.
-- Within the bosom of the encircling hills, an impenetrable darkness had already settled; and the plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without omen or whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.
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：
-- Mrs. Jay, aware that impropriety is the soul of wit, made observations in tones hardly above a whisper that might well have tinged the snowy tablecloth with a rosy hue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fred,' said Mr Swiveller stopping short, as if the idea had suddenly occurred to him, and speaking in the same audible whisper as before, 'is the old min friendly?'
-- Will you allow me to whisper half a syllable, sir?'
-- But Mr Cheggs came not alone or unsupported, for he prudently brought along with him his sister, Miss Cheggs, who making straight to Miss Sophy and taking her by both hands, and kissing her on both cheeks, hoped in an audible whisper that they had not come too early.
-- 'Oh, my dear,' rejoined Miss Cheggs in the same whisper as before, 'I've been so tormented, so worried, that it's a mercy we were not here at four o'clock in the afternoon.
-- Then she asked her grandfather in a whisper whether anybody had left the room while she was absent.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot do it because----" Again the usher sprang toward Simon and with a tragic whisper stopped him.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The White Queen only looked at her in a helpless frightened sort of way, and kept repeating something in a whisper to herself that sounded like 'bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter,' and Alice felt that if there was to be any conversation at all, she must manage it herself.
-- 'I'll whisper it,' said the Messenger, putting his hands to his mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and stooping so as to get close to the King's ear.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver added to me in a confidential whisper that was very flattering, as I thought, "He's quite an honest man, Tom Morgan, on'y stupid.
-- "Now, look you here, Jim Hawkins," he said in a steady whisper that was no more than audible, "you're within half a plank of death, and what's a long sight worse, of torture.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, if you hear of me being discovered dead in a bog or a pit full of snow, your conscience won't whisper that it is partly your fault?
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