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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand fromNew Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in herown handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of hercousin in a barroom brawl.
-- In the seventh week, there came a telegram from Colonel Hampton himself, and then aletter, a kind, dignified letter of condolence.
-- Nightly the dark tree-lined streetsresounded with dancing feet, and from parlors tinkled pianos where soprano voices blended with those of soldier guestsin the pleasing melancholy of "The Bugles Sang Truce" and "Your Letter Came, but Came Too Late" plaintiveballads that brought exciting tears to soft eyes which had never known the tears of real grief.
-- "I think " said Pitty, "yes, I think I'd better write Henry a letter about it much as I hate it but he's our onlymale relative, and make him go speak reprovingly to Captain Butler Oh, dear, if Charlie were only alive You mustnever, never speak to that man again, Scarlett."
-- "Read it," said Melly, pointing to the letter on the floor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe.
-- "Why, see what a letter you wrote last night!Wrote in print even!I've seen letters--Ah!and from gentlefolks!--that I'll swear weren't wrote in print," said Joe.
-- I received this letter by the post on Monday morning, and therefore its appointment was for next day.
-- Having had a letter from you, I were able to say 'I am.'
-- I had fallen into my serene state one evening, when we heard a letter dropped through the slit in the said door, and fall on the ground.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, she laid a letter near him, in which, after giving him particulars of the food and drink she had left for him, she finished with the following words: 'I see that as long as you remain here you will never be able to set me free; if, however, you still wish to do so, come to the golden castle of Stromberg; this is well within your power to accomplish.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.
-- In his right waistcoat-pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked 32 Gulliver's Travelswith black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands.
-- 'The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insup-portable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the com-mon practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred maj-esty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the 82 Gulliver's Travelsformal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
-- But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty's license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
-- The king made me a present to the value of about two hundred pounds English, and my protector, his kinsman, as much more, together with a letter of rec-ommendation to a friend of his in Lagado, the metropolis.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
-- said Mr. Sleary, who was troubled with asthma, and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for the letter s, 'Your thervant!Thith ith a bad piethe of bithnith, thith ith.
-- Every letter that I see in Mr. Gradgrind's hand takes my breath away and blinds my eyes, for I think it comes from father, or from Mr. Sleary about father.
-- After this, whenever Sissy dropped a curtsey to Mr. Gradgrind in the presence of his family, and said in a faltering way, 'I beg your pardon, sir, for being troublesome but have you had any letter yet about me?'
-- I am the bearer of a letter of introduction to Mr. Bounderby, the banker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will substitute," he said, "a letter of our alphabet for that of the Runic: we will then see what that will produce.
-- The first letter is a double M, which was only added to the Icelandic language in the twelfth century--this makes the parchment two hundred years posterior to the volume."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now Clif-ford would sometimes dictate a letter to her, and she would take it down rather slowly, but correctly.
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