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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief.
-- he began again in a tone of unendurable wrong.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried, in a tone of remonstrance.
-- He talked to me of London in a tone of half-painful remi-niscence, asking all kinds of questions about changes that had taken place.
-- He talked to Montgomery in a tone too low for me to hear.
-- 'Something to go on with, Prendick,' said he, in a far more familiar tone than before.
-- 'Say the words,' said the Ape-man, repeating, and the fig-ures in the doorway echoed this, with a threat in the tone of their voices.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scout regarded Heyward in surprise, and then lifting his cap, he answered, in a tone less confident than before though still expressing doubt.
-- Magua caught the expression, and raising his arm, he shook it at the captive, the light silver ornaments attached to his bracelet rattling with the trembling agitation of the limb, as, in a tone of vengeance, he exclaimed, in English: 'Mohican, you die!'
-- The scout heard them attentively, but im-patiently, and finally closed the discussion, by answering, in a tone that instantly silenced Alice, while it told Heyward how fruitless any further remonstrances would be.
-- delivered in a strong tone of as-sent, announced the gratification the savage would receive in witnessing such an exhibition of weakness in an enemy so long hated and so much feared.
-- demanded Le Coeur-dur, in a tone that, by its wonder, far exceeded the usual apathy of his race.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- He was foremost at all races and cock fights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one side, and giving his decisions with an air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I adopted the tone used by my Uncle Henry, a clergyman, when he was asking one of his relatives for a subscription to the Additional Curates Society.
-- I fancied there was in his tone a slight note of exasperation.
-- There was in his tone a frigid contempt.
-- His tone made me feel not a little ridiculous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Good-bye, till we meet again," cried Pencroft, as he watched them, in such a comical tone that Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, and Neb could not help laughing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not admit the thought, remembering what had passed between us, and the tone of voice in which he had called her by her name.
-- The old man and another person were together in the back part, and there seemed to have been high words between them, for their voices which were raised to a very high pitch suddenly stopped on my entering, and the old man advancing hastily towards me, said in a tremulous tone that he was very glad I had come.
-- These words were uttered in too low a tone to reach the ears of the young men.
-- The same glance at the mirror conveyed to her the reflection of a horribly grotesque and distorted face with the tongue lolling out; and the next instant the dwarf, turning about with a perfectly bland and placid look, inquired in a tone of great affection.
-- said the dwarf in a tone of great commiseration.
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