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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away un-perceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the ex-hortations of her father.
-- Her tone ex-pressed her entire indifference; she addressed me in English, and the voice struck me as one that I had heard during my sufferings.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy's tone became wheedling.
-- Besides, the tone of the letter vaguely depressed her with its foolish talk of defeat.
-- in a tone that made theword the foulest and most venomous of epithets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here"--which I solemnly declare I was not doing--"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"
-- He presently stood at the door immediately beneath me, smoking his pipe, and Biddy stood there too, quietly talking to him, and I knew that they talked of me, for I heard my name mentioned in an endearing tone by both of them more than once.
-- I said (in a tone of conviction), "Ah-h!"
-- Her reverting to this tone as if our association were forced upon us, and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain.
-- Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They admired 366 Gulliver's Travelsto hear me answer them in their own tongue, and saw by my complexion I must be a European; but were at a loss to know what I meant by Yahoos and Houyhnhnms; and at the same time fell a-laughing at my strange tone in speak-ing, which resembled the neighing of a horse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While, from Mr. Gradgrind, he heard in his much lower tone the words, 'But even as an example to Louisa, of what this pursuit which has been the subject of a vulgar curiosity, leads to and ends in.
-- At last, there were no more to come; and then he turned away, saying in a tone of disappointment, 'Why, then, ha' missed her!'
-- There was not a flutter of her coarse shawl, perhaps, but had its interest in this man's eyes; not a tone of her voice but had its echo in his innermost heart.
-- Mr. Bounderby is a very remarkable man; and what little disparity can be said to exist between you if any is more than counterbalanced by the tone your mind has acquired.
-- HEARING THE LAST OF ITMrs. Sparsit, lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in Mr. Bounderby's retreat, kept such a sharp look-out, night and day, under her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of lighthouses on an iron-bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners from that bold rock her Roman nose and the dark and craggy region in its neighbourhood, but for the placidity of her manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have been thinking about the matter," he said, in the quietest tone in the world.
-- "Now, Harry," cried the Professor, in an enthusiastic tone of voice, "we are truly about to take our first step into the Interior of the Earth; never before visited by man since the first creation of the world.
-- he said, in a tone of great gravity.
-- "Poor boy," I heard him say in a tone of deep commiseration.
-- "So, my dear Harry," said the Professor in a very singular tone of voice, "those few drops of water have not sufficed to restore your energy and courage."
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：
-- She looked so maidenly, so did Connie; but he well knew the tone of Scottish obstinacy underneath.
-- 'I hope I have said nothing to offend you,' he added, in a tone of dislike.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eye happening to light upon John Baptist with this inquiry, that little man briskly shook his head in the negative, and repeated in an argumentative tone under his breath, altro, altro, altro, altro an infinite number of times.
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