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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Maryann," said the girl on horseback, "go to him as he comes down, and say that the farmer wishes to thank him for the great service he has done."
-- They say now that she've business in every bank in Casterbridge, and thinks no more of playing pitch-and-toss sovereign than you and I do pitch-halfpenny not a bit in the world, shepherd."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will sink back among the cushions of your armchair, and say to yourself, "Perhaps this may amuse me."
-- The comparison holds good!Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
-- They were in something the same position as an elderly couple who have nothing left to say to each other.
-- de l'Ambermesnil lent herself very good-naturedly to this manoeuvre, began her operations, and succeeded in obtaining a private interview; but the overtures that she made, with a view to securing him for herself, were received with embarrassment, not to say a repulse.
-- "If I had been there at the time," Vautrin would say at the end of the story, "I would have shown her up, and that misfortune would not have befallen you.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton 11Letter 3To Mrs. Saville, England July 7th, 17 My dear Sister, I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe and well advanced on my voyage.
-- I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.
-- We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word 'Farewell!'
-- Such were the professor's words rather let me say such the words of the fate enounced to destroy me.
-- I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
-- If you say 'war' again, I'll go in the house."
-- "What did your mother say about you two being expelled again?"
-- "Well," said Stuart, "she hasn't had a chance to say anything yet.
-- "Didn't she say anything when you got home last night?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
-- I may truly say I've never had this apron of mine off since born you were.
-- "Churchyard, indeed!You may well say churchyard, you two."
-- Judging from myself, I should say he certainly had a turn afterwards, if he had had none before.
-- I dare say I should have felt a pain in my liver, too, if I had known where it was.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- 'What do you say of making an exchange?'
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