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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things."
-- "Had to say something.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- 'If I may say it,' said I, after a time, 'you have saved my life.'
-- '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.
-- I sit in the darkness and say the Law.'
-- Say the words.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They say too and it is true that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.
-- So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted: 'Each dog barks in his own yard!We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
-- And the Law does not say who may or may not pay that price.
-- 'Say so.
-- But first I must say fare-well to my mother.'
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：
-- There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- None can say they have ever known me to neglect my gifts!I am thankful that, though my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syl-lable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.'
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
-- 'What say your old men?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
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：
-- But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme.
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
-- No one could say such bitter things; on the other hand, no one could do more charming ones.
-- One morning Mrs. Strickland sent me round a note to say that she was giving a dinner-party that evening, and one of her guests had failed her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is needless to say that he was a bold, dashing fellow, ready to dare anything and was astonished at nothing.
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