declare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 宣告, 声明; 断言; 申报应纳税物品，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself 219guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
-- By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which some-times desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.
-- But it is your hap-piness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not occur to her toplan just what they would do if Ashley should declare his love for her in unmistakable words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, "Ye are now to declare it!"
-- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here"--which I solemnly declare I was not doing--"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"
-- When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
-- and I nodded at the old gentleman until it is no figure of speech to declare that I absolutely could not see him.
-- He waited for me to declare that I quite understood that he expressly said that he admitted nothing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the time came when he was to declare the se-cret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listen-ing behind the door to hear what he would say.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood, without any grounds, further than that her grace was pleased to treat me with all innocent marks of freedom and friendship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To prove the excellent Hardwigg's impatience, I solemnly declare that when the flowers in the drawing-room pots began to grow, he rose every morning at four o'clock to make them grow quicker by pulling the leaves!
-- CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT [Illustration: Runic Glyphs] "I Declare," cried my uncle, striking the table fiercely with his fist, "I declare to you it is Runic--and contains some wonderful secret, which I must get at, at any pr ice."
-- "I declare it puts me in mind of a cryptograph," he cried, "unless, indeed, the letters have been written without any real meaning; and yet why take so much trouble?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mr F.'s Aunt proved so lively as to take the suggestion in unexpected dudgeon and declare that she would not go; adding, with several injurious expressions, that if 'He' too evidently meaning Clennam wanted to get rid of her, 'let him chuck her out of winder;' and urgently expressing her desire to see 'Him' perform that ceremony.
-- Then he would give them Chloe, and if he were in pretty good spirits, Phyllis also Strephon he had hardly been up to since he went into retirement and then would Mrs Plornish declare she did believe there never was such a singer as Father, and wipe her eyes.
-- 'I was making a remark,' said Pancks, 'but I declare I forget what it was.
-- 'Of course!I said so!And now, Pa, I do declare once for all' this young lady was in the habit of declaring the same thing once for all every day of her life, and even several times in a day 'that this is shameful!I do declare once for all that it ought to be put a stop to.
-- On those occasions when Miss Fanny did declare once for all, he would take the next opportunity of baring his grey head before his younger niece, and of helping her to alight, or handing her to the carriage, or showing her any other attention, with the profoundest deference.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg pardoned him, and Mrs. March's grave face re-laxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no 脙娄sthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
-- Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
-- So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm whale his only food.
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