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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left Brooklyn pier, I received a letter worded as follows:To M. ARONNAX, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
-- B. Hobson's letter I no more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea.
-- Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
-- Each utensil spoon, fork, knife, plate had a letter engraved on it, with a motto above it, of which this is an exact facsimile:MOBILIS IN MOBILI NThe letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of the enigmatical person who commanded at the bottom of the seas.
-- "That seems to me to be clearly indicated," said I, reading the letter once more.
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：
-- "I've a pitiful letter here from Letherington," his father would say, in a tone of deprecation and appeal.
-- She received a letter from Winifred Crich, ornamented with drawings.
-- "Isn't that the letter about uniting the dark and the light and the Flux of Corruption?"
-- The strange effect of Birkin's letter read aloud in a perfect clerical sing-song, clear and resonant, phrase by phrase, made the blood mount into her head as if she were mad.
-- "Is that a genuine letter you are reading?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
-- 'Before I'd let a man order me about as Quilp orders her,' said Mrs George, 'before I'd consent to stand in awe of a man as she does of him, I'd I'd kill myself, and write a letter first to say he did it!'
-- The gush of tobacco came from the shop downstairs, and the soapy arm proceeded from the body of a servant-girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stairs had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which letter she now held in her hand, proclaiming aloud with that quick perception of surnames peculiar to her class that it was for Mister Snivelling.
-- To solve this question, Mr Swiveller summoned the handmaid and ascertained that Miss Sophy Wackles had indeed left the letter with her own hands; and that she had come accompanied, for decorum's sake no doubt, by a younger Miss Wackles; and that on learning that Mr Swiveller was at home and being requested to walk upstairs, she was extremely shocked and professed that she would rather die.
-- I shall very often be able to look in when I come into town I dare say, and I shall send you a letter sometimes, and when the quarter comes round, I can get a holiday of course; and then see if we don't take little Jacob to the play, and let him know what oysters means.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A letter from the old Princess, or the young one, perhaps.
-- The maid brought it long ago, and is now waiting in my room," said Agrippina Petrovna, handing him the letter with a significant smile.
-- "Very well; I will attend to it immediately," said Nekhludoff, taking the letter and then, noticing the smile on Agrippina's face, he frowned.
-- The smile on Agrippina's face signified that the letter came from Princess Korchagin, whom, according to Agrippina Petrovna, he was to marry.
-- Nekhludoff opened the perfumed letter and began to read: "In fulfillment of the duty I assumed of being your memory," the letter ran, "I call to your mind that you have been summoned to serve as juror to-day, the 28th of April, and that, therefore, you cannot accompany us and Kolosoff to the art exhibition, as you promised yesterday in your customary forgetfulness; 脙聽 moins que vous ne soyez dispos脙漏 脙聽 payer 脙聽 la cour d'assises les 300 rubles d'amende que vous vous refusez pour votre cheval, for your failure to appear in time.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there came a letter addressed to Dr. Livesey, with this addition, "To be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom Redruth or young Hawkins."
-- J. T.You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me.
-- Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.
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