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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lemaire and Shouten declare that they are eleven feet high."
-- He could, therefore, declare positively that the survivors of the wreck had not been thrown on that part of the western shore.
-- "How, I don't know," replied McNabbs; "and the police declare they are as ignorant on the subject as myself.
-- she exclaimed, clasping her hands, "I tell you my father is there!I can declare that I heard his voice come out of the waves like a wail, as if it were a last adieu."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At oth-ers he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time im-memorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that I will ever believe there is NOTHING in common between any two people, as some declare is the case.
-- And imagine, some people declare that when the head flies off it is CONSCIOUS of having flown off!Just imagine what a thing to realize!Fancy if conscious-ness were to last for even five seconds!
-- 'I declare you quite frightened me!
-- Why, you declare yourself a fool at once,' she said, with impudent familiarity, as she rose from the sofa and prepared to go.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Speak out!You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not tell water from air?
-- As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma, literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Crackit stopped to take a draught of spirits and water, and to declare that the gin was excellent; then placing his feet against the low mantelpiece, so as to bring his boots to about the level of his eye, he quietly resumed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.
-- The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.
-- I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions, and in particular places; at his own house espe-cially, and of a Sunday evening, when he has nothing to do.'
-- At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only cho-sen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, 'How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!I declare after all there is no enjoyment like read-ing!How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
-- Does it not expressly declare that Caroline neither expects nor wishes me to be her sister; that she is perfectly convinced of her brother's indifference; and that if she suspects the na-ture of my feelings for him, she means (most kindly!)
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh!dear, how beautiful these are!Well!how delightful!Do but look, mama, how sweet!I declare they are quite charming; I could look at them for ever."
-- "Do come now," said he "pray come you must come I declare you shall come You can't think how you will like them.
-- "And what a charming little family they have!I never saw such fine children in my life. I declare I quite doat upon them already, and indeed I am always distractedly fond of children."
-- cried Mrs. Jennings, as soon as she was gone, "how it grieves me to see her!And I declare if she is not gone away without finishing her wine!And the dried cherries too!Lord!nothing seems to do her any good.
-- The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs. Jennings had, for some time ceased to think at all of Mrs. Ferrars.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I declare to gracious ther' AIN'T but nine!'
-- It looks foolish enough NOW, in the daytime; but I says to myself, there's my two poor boys asleep, 'way up stairs in that lonesome room, and I declare to goodness I was that uneasy 't I crep' up there and locked 'em in!I DID.
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