letter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 信， 函件； 字母， 文字，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I received a letter from the Bank, sir, yesterday, inform-ing me that some intelligence or discovery ' 'The word is not material, miss; either word will do.'
-- Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
-- 83 Making his way through the tainted crowd, dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action, with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly, the messen-ger found out the door he sought, and handed in his letter through a trap in it.
-- At first, they were read as D. I. C.; but, on being more carefully examined, the last letter was found to be G. There was no record or legend of any prison-er with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been.
-- 'I believe that if you were not in disgrace with the Court, and had not been overshadowed by that cloud for years past, a letter de cachet would have sent me to some fortress in-definitely.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is too a letter to me; a crumpled letter and the seal broken.'
-- In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bo-som of his waistcoat.
-- It was from you!What a tour that letter had made!I opened it instantly and read: I laughed and wept.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
-- She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
-- Sergey Koznishev had been following this crusade with interest, and after reading the professor's last article, he had written him a letter stating his objections.
-- To be fully convinced of one's happiness, and all at once..." continued Dolly, holding back her sobs, "to get a letter...his letter to his mistress, my governess.
-- Precisely at twelve o'clock, when Anna was still sitting at her writing table, finishing a letter to Dolly, she heard the sound of measured steps in slippers, and Alexey Alexandrovitch, freshly washed and combed, with a book under his arm, came in to her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- V In college Martin had been a "barb"--he had not belonged to a Greek Letter secret society.
-- II A long letter from Leora, hinting that she might not be able to return to Zenith, left him the more lonely.
-- Though in his service to Leora and to the new god, Dean Silva, he had become austere, denying himself whisky, learning page on page of medicine with a frozen fury, he was always in a vacuum of desire for her, and always he ran the last block to his boarding-house, looking for a letter from her.
-- So simple, or so insane, was he that he wrote to Dean Silva politely bidding him step down and hand over his school--his work, his life--to an unknown teacher in Harvard!A courteous old gentleman was Dad Silva, a fit disciple of Osler, but this incredible letter killed his patience.
-- For himself, he hinted, if he ever believed that the school would profit by his resignation he would go at once, but he needed a rather broader suggestion than a letter from one of his own subordinates!
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ac-cused of 'taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.'
-- 'Ah, I forgot!A letter came for you yesterday when you were out.'
-- A minute later the letter was brought him.
-- The letter was quivering in his hand; he did not want to open it in her presence; he wanted to be left alone with this letter.
-- 'My dear Rodya,' wrote his mother 'it's two months since I last had a talk with you by letter which has distressed me and even kept me awake at night, thinking.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peggotty'spromised letter- what a comfortable letter it was!- arrived before'the half' was many weeks old, and with it a cake in a perfect nestof oranges, and two bottles of cowslip wine.
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