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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party set off, and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella; which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been a model of right feminine happiness.
-- Mr. Woodhouse talked over his alarms, and Emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During her illness many ar- guments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her.
-- It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
-- He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.
-- We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word 'Farewell!'
-- 'You may easily believe,' said he, 'how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred-ulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in *The Vicar of Wakefield*: 'I have ten thousand florins ayear without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Difficult as it is in a large city to avoid the suspicion of being watched, when the mind is conscious of danger in that regard, I could not persuade myself that any of the people within sight cared about my movements.
-- I tried to persuade myself that it was so,--as, indeed, it might easily be.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers, to persuade myself, that his majesty's present seventies ac-quitted me of all past obligations.
-- The only difficulty that remained, was to persuade my wife, whose consent however I at last obtained, by the prospect of ad-vantage she proposed to her children.
-- But I had soon reason to repent those foolish words: for that malicious reprobate, having often endeavoured in vain to persuade both the cap-tains that I might be thrown into the sea (which they would not yield to, after the promise made me that I should not die), however, prevailed so far, as to have a punishment in-flicted on me, worse, in all human appearance, than death itself.
-- The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although I think it the most delicious spot of ground in the world; and although they live here in the greatest plen-ty and magnificence, and are allowed to do whatever they please, they long to see the world, and take the diversions of the metropolis, which they are not allowed to do without a particular license from the king; and this is not easy to be obtained, because the people of quality have found, by frequent experience, how hard it is to persuade their wom-en to return from below.
-- Here my master inter-posed, by asking me, 'how I could persuade strangers, out of different countries, to venture with me, after the losses I had sustained, and the hazards I had run?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her repetition of this mistake covered Mrs. Sparsit with modest confusion; but indeed, she said, it seemed so natural to say Miss Gradgrind: whereas, to persuade herself that the young lady whom she had had the happiness of knowing from a child could be really and truly Mrs. Bounderby, she found almost impossible.
-- If, in remembrance of the pains bestowed upon you there, you can persuade yourself in any degree to disregard your present interest and release my son, I entreat and pray you to give him the benefit of that remembrance.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I advanced, I tried to recollect the shape of the tunnel--to recall to my memory certain projections of rocks--to persuade myself that I had followed certain winding routes before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be as hard to convince me that if I was to pass into the other world to-morrow, I should not, through the mercy of God, be received there by a daughter, just like Pet, as to persuade me that Pet herself is not a reality at my side.'
-- ' As I take you back,' the word home jarred upon him, 'let me ask you to persuade yourself that you have another friend.
-- He roused himself to persuade her to put some wine to her lips, and to touch something to eat it was very difficult, she was so timid and shy and then said, musing again:'Is my mother at all changed to you?'
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
-- 'Yes, sir; yes, I want it of you,' said Pancks, 'if I can persuade you to furnish it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she dressed herself in her best, and trying to persuade herself that she was neither excited nor nervous, bravely climbed two pairs of dark and dirty stairs to find herself in a disorderly room, a cloud of cigar smoke, and the presence of three gentlemen, sitting with their heels rather higher than their hats, which articles of dress none of them took the trouble to remove on her appearance.
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