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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.
-- Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
-- But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word till spoken to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
-- Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
-- Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of Mrs. Mann, who had got behind the beadle's chair, and was shaking her fist at him with a furious countenance.
-- 'I hope you say your prayers every night,' said another gentleman in a gruff voice; 'and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you--like a Christian.'
-- Say four pound, and you've got rid of him for good and all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say Mr. Bing-ley will be very glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.'
-- What say you, Mary?
-- Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how.
-- Lydia, my love, though you ARE the youngest, I dare say Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the next ball.'
-- 'Oh!She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am a' Monsieur Rigaud stood up to say it 'I am a cosmopolitan gentleman.
-- It is not for me to say whether there was any great disparity in such a match.
-- I say nothing in defence of pride, but I am proud.
-- Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She didn't say 'perhaps never,' but each silent-ly added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
-- 'Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything.
-- 'If you mean libel, I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle,' advised Jo, laughing.
-- But I want to say one word before we sit down.
-- Don't put your hands behind you, or stare, or say 'Christopher Columbus!'
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