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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eager mariners but ask him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him.
-- At first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my referring to his last night's hospitalities, he made out to ask me whether we were again to be bedfellows.
-- But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse our first point of departure must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
-- I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab, when we heard a noise on deck.
-- and may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by which he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
-- A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist.
-- 'But, my dear,' said Sowerberry, 'I want to ask your advice.'
-- 'No, no, don't ask mine,' replied Mrs. Sowerberry, in an affecting manner: 'ask somebody else's.'
-- 'Why, he was so angry, Oliver, that he forgot even to ask after you!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.
-- Chapter 3 ot all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of Nher five daughters, could ask on the subject, was suffi-cient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.
-- Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.'
-- 'Not at all,' was her answer; 'but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask nothing about it.'
-- May I ask whether these pleasing attentions pro-ceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'May I ask you,' he said, 'what is the name of ''Tattycoram?'
-- May I ask you in no impertinent curiosity, but because I have had so much pleasure in your society, may never in this labyrinth of a world exchange a quiet word with you again, and wish to preserve an accurate remembrance of you and yours may I ask you, if I have not gathered from your good wife that you have had other children?'
-- And now, Mr Clennam, perhaps I may ask you whether you have yet come to a decision where to go next?'
-- Shall he have the pleasure of directing the messenger to ask if there are any letters for you?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.
-- 'You can't ask Mother for new ones, they are so expen-sive, and you are so careless.
-- 'Yes, yes, spandy nice, and Meg has cologne on hers,' cried Jo, adding with a laugh as they went on, 'I do believe Marmee would ask that if we were all running away from an earthquake.
-- Jo wanted very much to ask what his own way was, but his black brows looked rather threatening as he knit them, so she changed the subject by saying, as her foot kept time, 'That's a splendid polka!Why don't you go and try it?'
-- 'I'll ask Laurie.
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