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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
-- A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabez Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their entertainer had sat perfectly quiet in the beginning of this dispute, looking first at one man and then at the other, as if he were lying in wait for an opportunity of putting some further question, or reverting to that from which the discourse had strayed.
-- At this repast, Mr Chuckster exerted his utmost abilities to enchant his entertainers, and impress them with a conviction of the mental superiority of those who dwelt in town; with which view he led the discourse to the small scandal of the day, in which he was justly considered by his friends to shine prodigiously.
-- 'I beg your pardon, Sir,' said Kit, who had listened to this discourse with a lengthening countenance, 'but if that's the reason, I'm afraid I should do more harm than good Miss Nell, Sir, she knows me, and would trust in me, I am sure; but old master I don't know why, gentlemen; nobody does would not bear me in his sight after he had been ill, and Miss Nell herself told me that I must not go near him or let him see me any more.
-- As their discourse appeared to relate to matters in which they were warmly interested, however, she deemed it the best time for escaping unobserved; and crept away with slow and cautious steps, keeping in the shadow of the hedges, or forcing a path through them or the dry ditches, until she could emerge upon the road at a point beyond their range of vision.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was no childishness, but a discourse with myself, with that true, divine I which lives in every man.
-- All this time this I was slumbering and I had no one to discourse with.
-- Her discourse was interspersed with foreign scientific terms about propaganda, disorganization, groups, sections and sub-sections, which, she was perfectly certain, everybody knew, but of which Nekhludoff had never even heard.
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