speech是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 演说， 讲话； 言语， 语言，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：
-- "That's to say false in speech and false in action," said Paganel, after he had translated this beautiful figure of the Patagonian language.
-- But the first thing he did on recovering his memory and speech was to ask for Lord Glenarvan, or, failing him, the Major.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlady's lively speech was received with greater favour at the Break of Day, than it would have elicited from certain amiable whitewashers of the class she so unreasonably objected to, nearer Great Britain.
-- 'Not to deceive you' was a method of speech with Mrs Plornish.
-- Mrs Chivery, who was a comfortable-looking woman much respected about Horsemonger Lane for her feelings and her conversation, uttered this speech with fell composure, and immediately afterwards began again to shake her head and dry her eyes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break.
-- A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made.
-- That was a nice little speech about the medicine Mother sent him.'
-- she did go in, right up to Mr. Laurence, who looked quite tak-en aback, and held out her hand, saying, with only a small quaver in her voice, 'I came to thank you, sir, for...' But she didn't finish, for he looked so friendly that she forgot her speech and, only remembering that he had lost the little girl he loved, she put both arms round his neck and kissed him.
-- screamed Polly, and at that rude speech Amy could not restrain a sniff.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes accompanied this speech with a jerk at his little companion's wrist; Oliver, quickening his pace into a kind of trot between a fast walk and a run, kept up with the rapid strides of the house-breaker as well as he could.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar rela-tions.
-- Her cousin pref-aced his speech with a solemn bow and though she could not hear a word of it, she felt as if hearing it all, and saw in the motion of his lips the words 'apology,' 'Hunsford,' and 'Lady Catherine de Bourgh.'
-- 'Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disap-pointment.'
-- Oh!how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed to-wards him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness; attended too with the assurance of her expecting material advantage to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed.
-- This speech at first puzzled Mrs. Jennings exceedingly.
-- Elinor, dreading her being tired, led her towards home; and till they reached the door of the cottage, easily conjecturing what her curiosity must be though no question was suffered to speak it, talked of nothing but Willoughby, and their conversation together; and was carefully minute in every particular of speech and look, where minuteness could be safely indulged.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went off into the longest speech he had yet indulged in, concerning the lay of Chicago.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thiev-ing, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and ' Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old lim-ber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the gov- ment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and there.
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
-- It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Cat tried to answer, but he became so terribly twisted in his speech that the Fox had to help him out.
-- This speech was greeted by much laughter and applause.
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