discourse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 论文； 演说； 谈话； 话语vi. 讲述， 著述，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：
-- But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.
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 Coun-cillor imagined it was the cholera that was meant, which people made so much fuss about; and the discourse passed off satisfactorily enough.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus people talked incessantly of Alexey Alexandrovitch, finding fault with him and laughing at him, while he, blocking up the way of the member of the Imperial Council he had captured, was explaining to him point by point his new financial project, never interrupting his discourse for an instant for fear he should escape.
-- Sviazhsky comically imitated the tearful discourse of the marshal, and observed, addressing Nevyedovsky, that his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears.
-- They went forward too, and heard a gentleman with a glass in his hand delivering a loud discourse to the volunteers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Martin, according to the rules for amorous discourse in the University of Winnemac.
-- The astounded world, the astounded and profane Clif Clawson, had the spectacle of Martin in shiny pressed clothes, a painful linen collar, and an arduously tied scarf, accompanying Mrs. Fox and the chastely chattering Madeline to the Mohalis Methodist Church, to hear the Reverend Dr. Myron Schwab discourse on "The One Way to Righteousness."
-- If he was bored by the United Brethren minister's discourse on doctrine, on the wickedness of movies, and the scandalous pay of pastors, it was not at all because he was a distant and supersensitive young man but because he found more savor in the garageman's salty remarks on the art of remembering to ante in poker.
-- He remembered that to Clif Clawson it had been pretentious to use any phrase which was not as colloquial and as smutty as the speech of a truck-driver, and that his own discourse had differed from Clif's largely in that it had been less fantastic and less original.
-- You realized before he had talked to you for ten minutes that here was one of the few leaders of mankind who could discourse on any branch of knowledge, yet could control practical affairs and drive stumbling mankind on to sane and reasonable ideals.
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：
-- But the 'humane' Andrey Semyonovitch ascribed Pyotr Petrovitch's ill-hu-mour to his recent breach with Dounia and he was burning with impatience to discourse on that theme.
-- In public convey-ances and shops, wherever she could capture a listener, she would begin the discourse about her son, his article, how he had helped the student, how he had been burnt at the fire, and so on!Dounia did not know how to restrain her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For I own it seems to me, my dearMr. Copperfield,' said Mrs. Micawber, who always fell back on me(I suppose from old habit) to whomsoever else she might addressher discourse at starting, 'that the time is come when the pastshould be buried in oblivion; when my family should take Mr.Micawber by the hand, and Mr. Micawber should take my family 712by the hand; when the lion should lie down with the lamb, and myfamily be on terms with Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by every body, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection, 'It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here.
-- Frank Churchill returned to his station by Emma; and as soon as Miss Bates was quiet, she found herself neces-sarily overhearing the discourse of Mrs. Elton and Miss Fairfax, who were standing a little way behind her. He was thoughtful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the imagined discourse of thought.
-- These somewhat pathetic evidences of a mind crazed with care and love were the subject of discourse in Warren's malt-house when Oak entered from Casterbridge with tidings of the sentence.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony.
-- Soon after, however, Felix approached with another man; I was surprised, as I knew that he had not quitted the cottage that morning, and waited anxiously to discover from his discourse the meaning of these unusu-al appearances.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
-- I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged's sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged's roll.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
-- I began my discourse by informing his majesty, that our dominions consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms, under one sovereign, beside our planta-tions in America.
-- For, I remember very well, in a discourse one day with the king, when I happened to say, 'there were several thousand books among us written upon the art of government,' it gave him (directly contrary to my intention) a very mean opinion of our understandings.
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