persuade是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 说服， 劝说； (of) 使相信，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 know that, to be sure,' assented Mr. Lorry, trying to persuade himself that his sweet temper was soured, and that he grumbled, 'but I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.
-- One cannot help thinking, having had some sympathy for the miserable peo-ple, and having abandoned something to them,' he spoke here in his former thoughtful manner, 'that one might be listened to, and might have the power to persuade to some restraint.
-- What did the two then, to persuade her hus-band to use his influence with her, to make her willing?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Masha promised to write to Konstantin in case of need, and to persuade Nikolay Levin to go and stay with his brother.
-- I've had scarlatina, and I'll persuade mamma to let me."
-- she questioned him about his health and what he had been doing, and tried to persuade him to take a rest and come out to her.
-- Often, looking at them, she would make every possible effort to persuade herself that she was mistaken, that she as a mother was partial to her children.
-- This was really too tragic, and Darya Alexandrovna made up her mind to persuade the English governess to forgive Grisha, and she went to speak to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I knew you could not persuade yourself to separate from us.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His mechanistic philosophy did not persuade him that he was progressing adequately.
-- After a day of slaughtering rats and disinfecting houses he sat with Martin, with Martin and Leora, or with whomever he could persuade to linger.
-- Chapter 34 To persuade the shopkeeping lords of St. Hubert to endure a test in which half of them might die, so that all plague might--perhaps--be ended forever, was impossible.
-- V Like Sondelius, Joyce Lanyon tried to persuade Martin to give the phage to everybody.
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：
-- Let my life go, if only my dear ones may be happy!More than that, we become casuists, we learn to be Jesuitical and for a time maybe we can soothe ourselves, we can persuade ourselves that it is one's duty for a good object.
-- How, how can I persuade you not to perse-cute me with your kindness?
-- It was only the un-bounded confidence inspired by Nastasya's account of her brother's queer friend, which prevented her from trying to run away from him, and to persuade her mother to do the same.
-- (Hard work I've had to persuade her!)
-- I did try to persuade her, but she wouldn't listen.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How many times I went up and down the street, and round thesquare- painfully aware of being a much better answer to the oldriddle than the original onebefore I could persuade myself to go upthe steps and knock, is no matter now.
-- I wantedto persuade Dora to come and see Traddles, but on my proposing itshe ran off to her own room, and locked herself in; so I went toTraddles without her, and walked away with him on air.
-- If circumstances had nothappened otherwise, I might have come to persuade myself that Ireally loved him, and might have married him, and been mostwretched.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing. You never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished. You know you could not.'
-- Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actu-ally on his road to London, and not meaning to return till 82 Emmathe morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.
-- I think, Emma, I shall try and persuade her to stay longer with us.
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