ask是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 问， 询问； 请求， 要求； 邀请， 约请，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Sultan had no- 29body he could ask to be his second but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.
-- 'Did not you ask it for any- thing?'
-- replied the fisherman, 'the fish cannot make an emperor, I am sure, and I should not like to ask him for such a thing.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was frequently rallied by the queen upon account of my fearfulness; and she used to ask me whether the people of my country were as great cowards as myself?
-- This conversation was not ended under five audiences, each of several hours; and the king heard the whole with great attention, frequently taking notes of what I spoke, as well as memorandums of what questions he intended to ask me.
-- He then grew serious, and desired to ask me freely, 'whether I were not troubled in my mind by the consciousness of some enormous crime, for which I was punished, at the command of some prince, by exposing me in that chest; as great criminals, in other countries, have been forced to sea in a leaky vessel, without provisions: for although he should be sorry to have taken so ill a man into his ship, yet he would engage his word to set me safe ashore, in the first port where we arrived.'
-- My daughter kneeled to ask my bless-ing, but I could not see her till she arose, having been so long used to stand with my head and eyes erect to above sixty feet; and then I went to take her up with one hand by the waist.
-- While we were at dinner, I made bold to ask the names of several things in their language, and those noble persons, by the assistance of their flappers, delighted to give me an-swers, hoping to raise my admiration of their great abilities if I could be brought to converse with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, let me ask you girls and boys, Would you paper a room with representations of horses?'
-- I should ask Mrs. Gradgrind's pardon for strong expressions, but that she knows very well I am not a refined character.
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- 'I don't ask about him.
-- 'Tell me more about him,' said Louisa, 'I will never ask you again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not an easy matter to lose oneself in the two streets of Reykjavik; I had therefore no need to ask my way.
-- Before, however, I could ask myself the question a second time, a mouthful of water cooled my parched lips and throat--one mouthful, but I do believe it brought me back to life.
-- I will go on alone." "You ask us to leave you?"
-- Now I, the Christopher Columbus of this subterranean region, only ask of you one more day.
-- "I want to ask you a very serious question.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now I consider,' he added, 'I can give a woman the darndest good time she can ask for.
-- 'Did she ask after me?'
-- MAY I ask your Ladyship how Sir Clifford is! I believe she ranks you even higher than Nurse Cavell!'
-- 'Dunna ask them things,' he said.
-- 'We shan't ask them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, I ask you,' said Mr Meagles in the blandest confidence, falling back a step himself, and handing his daughter a step forward to illustrate his question: 'I ask you simply, as between man and man, you know, DID you ever hear of such damned nonsense as putting Pet in quarantine?'
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