say是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 说， 讲； 说明； 比如说vi. 说， 发表意见，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mind!I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowl-edge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- Still,' returned the gentleman, 'I wish I could say they were not.'
-- To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue.
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe.'
-- 'I say a horse at a gallop, Tom,' returned the guard, leav-ing his hold of the door, and mounting nimbly to his place.
-- Jerry, say that my answer was, RECALLED TO LIFE.'
-- 'You might treble that, and say a hundred and fifty, yet not be far from the truth.'
-- A joker of an extremely, not to say wolfishly practical character, he looked, under those circumstances.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You do not say whether the stuff pleases you.'
-- And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.
-- It was certainly rather cool of him to say to the Emperor's daughter, 'Will you have me?'
-- So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.
-- I have half a mind to go back again, and say what I suffer.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She did not say we must do our lessons, but she said we were to go for a walk with Miss Hoole to grandmamma's."
-- "How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again?"
-- "Well, say the few words, then, at once, and we'll gossip after dinner."
-- The professor, in annoyance, and, as it were, mental suffering at the interruption, looked round at the strange inquirer, more like a bargeman than a philosopher, and turned his eyes upon Sergey Ivanovitch, as though to ask: What's one to say to him?
-- All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people--why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When I say I'll wager," returned Stuart, "I mean it."
-- He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
-- "I should say he was."
-- It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable.
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