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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you mean to say it is a bottle that the shark has got in his stomach."
-- "I dare say this frail concern has made a long voyage, protected by this strong covering."
-- CHAPTER IV LADY GLENARVAN'S PROPOSALLADY HELENA thought it best to say nothing to the children about the fears Lord Glenarvan had expressed in his letters respecting the decisions of the Lords of the Admiralty with regard to the document.
-- "Do you say so, miss?"
-- I suppose I must resign myself to it; but people will say it is a most extraordinary adventure, and it is only to me such things happen.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
-- Is it, then, stretching our inference too far to say that the presentation was on the occasion of the change?'
-- 'How can you say that, sir?'
-- I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant.
-- Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terri-ble oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- 'Oh, you are right again,' said the fair-haired traveller, 'for I really am ALMOST wrong when I say she and I are related.
-- H'm!I don't know, I'm sure!I may say I have never heard of such a person,' said the clerk, thoughtfully.
-- Why, you don't mean to say that she and Lihachof ' cried Rogojin, turning quite pale.
-- 'I didn't say right out who I was, but Zaleshoff said: 'From Parfen Rogojin, in memory of his first meeting with you yesterday; be so kind as to accept these!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him.
-- In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it, 'Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you.
-- But, O king, consider and give ear to my counsel, for the word that I say may not be neglected lightly.
-- Thus marched the host like a consuming fire, and theearth groaned beneath them when the lord of thunder is angry and lashes the land about Typhoeus among the Ari-mi, where they say Typhoeus lies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that if I may make so bold as to say it, sir " "Will you get me some matches?"
-- Very uncomfortable position!One would like to say something.
-- "You don't say so!"
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Where did my good friends say they would wait for me?"
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