tone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 音调， 音色； 风气， 气氛； 腔调， 语气； 色调，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they are pleased, pleased!And to think that this is only the first blossoming, and that the real fruits are to come!But what really matters is not the stinginess, is not the meanness, but the tone of the whole thing.
-- For that will be the tone after marriage, it's a foretaste of it.
-- The old woman recovered herself, and her visitor's resolute tone evidently restored her confidence.
-- 'Amalia Ludwigovna, I beg you to recollect what you are saying,' Katerina Ivanovna began haughtily (she always took a haughty tone with the landlady that she might 're-member her place' and even now could not deny herself this satisfaction).
-- A little more, and their companionship, this mother and this sister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of conversation, in face of the utter impossibility of re-ally speaking about anything, would have been beyond his power of endurance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my dread of the end of the vacation and theircoming back, I could not read a boy's name, without inquiring inwhat tone and with what emphasis he would read, 'Take care ofhim.
-- All the rest of that day, and frommorning to night afterwards, she sat at that desk; scratchingcomposedly with a hard pen, speaking in the same imperturbablewhisper to everybody; never relaxing a muscle of her face, orsoftening a tone of her voice, or appearing with an atom of herdress astray.
-- exclaimed Miss Betsey, in a tone ofamazement I have never heard approached.
-- 'Well now,' said the waiter, in a tone of confidence, 'what wouldyou like for dinner?
-- Her tone and look implied somethingthat was not agreeable to me in connection with the subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Isabella in the plaintive tone which just suited her father.
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
-- Soon afterwards Mr. Elton quitted them, and she could not but do him the justice of feeling that there was a great deal of sentiment in his manner of naming Harriet at part-ing; in the tone of his voice while assuring her that he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report; and he sighed and smiled himself off in a way that left the bal-ance of approbation much in his favour.
-- (in a tone of wonder and pity,) I had no idea that the law had been so great a slavery.
-- Sighs and fine words had been given in abundance; but she could hardly devise any set of expressions, or fancy any tone of voice, less allied with real love.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the tone of twopence remarkably insignificant.
-- Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognised power.
-- "It was not exactly the fault of the hut," she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
-- Gabriel uttered "a little" in a tone to show her that it was the complacent form of "a great deal."
-- "No not at all," said Gabriel, in a reproving tone of considerateness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- The Countess turned pale at first at the sight of her husband's vexation, then she reddened; clearly she was embarrassed, her answer was made in a tone that she tried to make natural, and with an air of assumed carelessness: 莽卢卢30 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 "You could not know any one who is dearer to us both .
-- The Duchess' expression grew colder, she did not like the flippant tone of these remarks, and showed that she considered them to be in bad taste by turning to the Vicomtesse with--"This gentleman has only just come----" Mme.
-- 莽卢卢40 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 Eugene's remarks produced a sensation, and his tone silenced the dinner-table.
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