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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I now declare openly, in the presence of these wit-nesses, that I will do so.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such do I declare my blood and lineage, but as for valour, Jove gives it or takes it as he will, for he is lord of all.
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：
-- Cora had been sent to a tribe that temporarily occupied an adjacent valley, though David was far too ignorant of the customs and history of the natives, to be able to declare anything satisfactory con-cerning their name or character.
-- Thus singled, and directly called on to declare his object, the Huron arose; and advancing with great deliberation and dignity into the very center of the circle, where he stood confronted by the prisoners, he placed himself in an attitude to speak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though this was a concerted plot between Miss Sophy and her sister, originating in humane intentions and having for its object the inducing Mr Swiviller to declare himself in time, it failed in its effect; for Miss Jane being one of those young ladies who are prematurely shrill and shrewish, gave such undue importance to her part that Mr Swiviller retired in dudgeon, resigning his mistress to Mr Cheggs and conveying a defiance into his looks which that gentleman indignantly returned.
-- At length, everything was ready, and they went off very fast; Kit's mother carrying the baby, who was dreadfully wide awake, and Kit holding little Jacob in one hand, and escorting Barbara with the other a state of things which occasioned the two mothers, who walked behind, to declare that they looked quite family folks, and caused Barbara to blush and say, 'Now don't, mother!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "[A] "I have already said that I cannot prosecute them in the absence of witnesses," said the assistant prosecutor, "and I will so declare to the court."
-- And when he thought how he would see her, confess his guilt before her, how he would declare to her that he would do everything in his power, marry her in order to wipe out his guilt, he became enraptured, and tears filled his eyes.
-- "If," he wrote, "a bacterium were to observe and analyze the nail of a man, it would declare him an inorganic being.
-- Similarly, from an observation of the earth's surface, we declare it to be inorganic.
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：
-- 'I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!'
-- 'Now I declare that's too bad!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I declare we could fight a frigate.
-- "Silver, if you like," cried the squire; "but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English."
-- "Well," says I, growing a bit bolder, "if I'm to choose, I declare I have a right to know what's what, and why you're here, and where my friends are."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed I declare (though it may seem improbable) if I sought to destroy all hope if I wished to despair, I could not.
-- I should not be surprised at it, but I declare that they shall not eat me without my protesting."
-- Here is a preserve of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled in the world; here is a cream, of which the milk has been furnished by the cetacea, and the sugar by the great fucus of the North Sea; and, lastly, permit me to offer you some preserve of anemones, which is equal to that of the most delicious fruits."
-- Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
-- But I declare to you that I have had enough of the South Pole, and I will not follow him to the North."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oho!I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway."
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