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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Upon my word, one would say they were pigeons!"
-- "Certainly," replied Pencroft, "and I may say happily, for without matches or tinder we should be in a fix."
-- I must say I prefer matches.
-- It is useless to say that the darkest corners of the passages were ransacked before they were obliged to give it up in despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the old man turning to me with a sigh, as if I had spoken to him but that moment, 'you don't know what you say when you tell me that I don't consider her.'
-- Well, well then let us say I love thee dearly.'
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- 'She is poor now' said the old man, patting the child's cheek, 'but I say again that the time is coming when she shall be rich.
-- Seeing that he was in a state of excitement and impatience, I turned to put on an outer coat which I had thrown off on entering the room, purposing to say no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ; v. 21._ "Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but until seventy times seven."
-- The old woman began to say something to Maslova.
-- He was conscious of it and seemed to say by his demeanor: "Never mind your expressions of devotion," and brushed past the crowd.
-- "You say 'Lubka,' but a different name is entered here."
-- At this Maslova shuddered again, sprang to her feet, turned red in the face, and began to say something, but the usher bade her be quiet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?"
-- But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time.
-- "You mean to say that that machine has travelled into the future?"
-- "I say," said the Editor hilariously, "these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week!Tell us all about little Rosebery, will you?
-- I won't say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, 'when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow!And you'd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling!What have you got to say for yourself?
-- 'It's time for you to answer now,' the Queen said, looking at her watch: 'open your mouth a little wider when you speak, and always say "your Majesty."'
-- 'I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty ''That's right,' said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn't like at all, 'though, when you say "garden," I've seen gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness.'
-- Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: ' and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill ''When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, 'I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'
-- but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so.
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