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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's extraordinary to me if you'll excuse my freedom in saying so that you don't go straight to London,' said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser.
-- She then put on the spectacles and read certain passages aloud from a book sternly, fiercely, wrathfully praying that her enemies (she made them by her tone and manner expressly hers) might be put to the edge of the sword, consumed by fire, smitten by plagues and leprosy, that their bones might be ground to dust, and that they might be utterly exterminated.
-- With no earthly friend to help her, or so much as to see her, but the one so strangely assorted; with no knowledge even of the common daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred in a social condition, false even with a reference to the falsest condition outside the walls; drinking from infancy of a well whose waters had their own peculiar stain, their own unwholesome and unnatural taste; the Child of the Marshalsea began her womanly life.
-- It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know I do teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home,' began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
-- The old gentleman softly stroked the hair off her forehead, and, stooping down, he kissed herr, saying, in a tone few people ever heard... 'I had a little girl once, with eyes like these.
-- Her tone and manner angered Amy, who began to put her boots on, saying, in her most aggravating way, 'I shall go.
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
-- Jo's sudden change of tone made the girls laugh, but all looked rather anxious, and no one said a word as Snodgrass took his seat.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
-- He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.
-- There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
-- " but slipping backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and immediately shifting his tone he cried "The corpusants have mercy on us all!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think you will,' said Mrs. Mann, who had noticed the tone of the refusal, and the gesture that had accompanied it.
-- 'Don't make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be thankful,' said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity.
-- said the undertaker in a tone which half admitted and half disputed the probability of the event.
-- 'Yer know, Work'us,' continued Noah, emboldened by Oliver's silence, and speaking in a jeering tone of affected pity: of all tones the most annoying: 'Yer know, Work'us, it can't be helped now; and of course yer couldn't help it then; and I am very sorry for it; and I'm sure we all are, and pity yer very much.
-- 'Somebody must find out wot's been done at the office,' said Mr. Sikes in a much lower tone than he had taken since he came in.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expres-sions, or the word will be but half-deserved.'
-- In a softened tone she declared herself not at all offended; but he continued to apologise for about a quarter of an hour.
-- I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.'
-- He observed to her, at a moment when the others were talking together, and in a tone which had something of real regret, that it 'was a very long time since he had had the pleasure of seeing her;' and, before she could reply, he added, 'It is above eight months.
-- On his quitting the room she sat down, unable to support herself, and looking so miserably ill, that it was impossible for Darcy to leave her, or to refrain from saying, in a tone of gentleness and commiseration, 'Let me call your maid.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
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