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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were on the theatre of the last diversions of the monster: and, to say truth, we no longer LIVED on board.
-- I will not say there was a mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of obstinacy, Captain Farragut (as Columbus did) asked for three days' patience.
-- And, must I say it ?"
-- "I say that, at the time I threw myself into the sea, I heard the men at the wheel say, `The screw and the rudder are broken.'
-- Say rather breakfast-time, for we certainly have begun another day."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she would say in a low voice to Birkin:"Who is that young man?"
-- "Well you can hardly say that, can you?"
-- He did not want to say anything about the flight to the church door.
-- She could not say what it was.
-- At that moment they heard a woman's voice a few yards off say loudly:"Oh damn the thing!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.
-- No, reprobate!you are a castaway be off, or I'll hurt you seriously!I'll have you all modelled in wax and clay!and the first who passes the limits I fix shall I'll not say what he shall be done to but, you'll see!Go, I'm looking at you!
-- I blushed at my inconsideration: but, without showing further consciousness of the offence, I hastened to add 'The truth is, sir, I passed the first part of the night in ' Here I stopped afresh I was about to say 'perusing those old volumes,' then it would have revealed my knowledge of their written, as well as their printed, contents; so, correcting myself, I went on 'in spelling over the name scratched on that window ledge.
-- You have lived here a considerable time,' I commenced; 'did you not say sixteen years?
-- Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the tru th I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room.
-- says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
-- You and me'll just go back into the parlour, sonny, and get behind the door, and we'll give Bill a little surprise bless his 'art, I say again."
-- And again, "If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I."
-- "It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die do you understand that? die, and go to your own place, like the man in the Bible.
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