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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Wilson was arranging this, Glenarvan got his letter ready for Tom Austin, but his wounded arm troubled him, and he asked Paganel to write it for him.
-- Paganel's pencil stopped, and he seemed to become oblivious of Glenarvan and the letter entirely, till his friends called out: "Come, Paganel!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may take it, therefore, that the letter was composed by an educated man who wished to pose as an uneducated one, and his effort to conceal his own writ-ing suggests that that writing might be known, or come to be known, by you.
-- On the whole I incline to the latter view, since the matter was evidently important, and it is unlikely that the composer of such a letter would be careless.
-- If he were in a hurry it opens up the interesting question why he should be in a hurry, since any letter posted up to early morning would reach Sir Henry before he would leave his hotel.
-- 'And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel.
-- And always, apart from the hound, there is the fact of the human agency in London, the man in the cab, and the letter which warned Sir Henry against the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Was it not you, then, who sent a letter a year or less ago from Switzerland, I think it was to Elizabetha Prokofievna (Mrs.
-- Oh, well, I suppose it's all right; especially as my letter was not answered.
-- 'No one, at present; but I hope to make friends; and then I have a letter from ' 'At all events,' put in the general, not listening to the news about the letter, 'at all events, you must have learned SOMETHING, and your malady would not prevent your undertaking some easy work, in one of the departments, for instance?
-- 'When I received a letter from those dear little souls, while passing through Berlin, I only then realized how much I loved them.
-- 'The letter is not sealed ' continued Gania, and paused in confusion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When he reached the river Xanthus, which is in Ly-cia, the king received him with all goodwill, feasted him nine days, and killed nine heifers in his honour, but when rosy-fingered morning appeared upon the tenth day, he questioned him and desired to see the letter from his son-in-law Proetus.
-- When he had received the wicked letter he first commanded Bellerophon to kill that savage monster, the Chimaera, who was not a human being, but a goddess, for she had the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent, while her body was that of a goat, and she breathed forth flames of fire; but Bellerophon slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven.
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：
-- For the custom-ary attentions of your Marquis of Montcalm I warrant me, Duncan, that he of Lothian would buy a dozen such marquisates but if the news of the letter were bad, the gentility of this French monsieur would certainly compel him to let us know it.'
-- Then, suddenly changing his bitter, ironical man-ner, to one more grave and thoughtful, he continued: 'and yet there might, and must be, something in that letter which it would be well to know!'
-- Duncan, who believed it of the last importance that they should speedily come to the contents of the letter borne by the scout, gladly encouraged this idea.
-- 'Let General Webb be his own interpreter,' returned the politic Montcalm, suddenly extending an open letter to-ward Munro as he spoke; 'you will there learn, monsieur, that his movements are not likely to prove embarrassing to my army.'
-- Duncan caught the letter from the ground, and without apology for the liberty he took, he read at a glance its cruel purport.
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：
-- Personally I think it was rash of Mr. Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained belief of a certain "unpleasantness" between his father and mother, to state that Charles Strickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as "an excellent woman," since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to print the letter in facsimile, and it appears that the passage referred to ran in fact as follows: God damn my wife.
-- His letter came like a thunderbolt.
-- At last she showed me the letter he had written.
-- I shall post this letter on my arrival.
-- "It's a very strange letter under the circumstances," I replied.
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