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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was the first to persuade you to cross America and Australia.
-- If I can persuade Kai-Koumou that we have expiated our profanation, that the wrath of the Deity has fallen on us: in a word, that we have died a terrible death, do you think he will leave the plateau of Maunganamu to return to his village?"
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：
-- Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also; but if I have one quality upon earth it is common-sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew he would come and persuade me to this step, and that he would adduce the argument that it would be easier for me to die' among people and green trees,' as he expressed it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
-- One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk away.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How good it was in you, my dear Mr. Bennet!But I knew I should persuade you at last.
-- In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: 'Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my ex-ample, and take a turn about the room.
-- The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.
-- In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother's words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible whisper; for, to her inexpressible vexation, she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr. Darcy, who sat opposite to them.
-- Charlotte hardly had time to answer, before they were joined by Kitty, who came to tell the same news; and no sooner had they entered the breakfast-room, where Mrs. Bennet was alone, than she likewise began on the subject, calling on Miss Lucas for her compassion, and entreating her to persuade her friend Lizzy to comply with the wishes of all her family.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this thought my spirits began to revive; and the rain also helping to persuade me, I went in and sat down in my tent.
-- In the middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, it came into my thoughts one day that all this might be a mere chimera of my own, and that this foot might be the print of my own foot, when I came on shore from my boat: this cheered me up a little, too, and I began to persuade myself it was all a delusion; that it was nothing else but my own foot; and why might I not come that way from the boat, as well as I was going that way to the boat?
-- However, I went down thus two or three days, and having seen nothing, I began to be a little bolder, and to think there was really nothing in it but my own imagination; but I could not persuade my-self fully of this till I should go down to the shore again, and see this print of a foot, and measure it by my own, and see if there was any similitude or fitness, that I might be assured it was my own foot: but when I came to the place, first, it appeared evidently to me, that when I laid up my boat I could not possibly be on shore anywhere thereabouts; secondly, when I came to measure the mark with my own foot, I found my foot not so large by a great deal.
-- They needed very few argu-ments to persuade a single man to yield, when he saw five men upon him and his comrade knocked down: besides, this was, it seems, one of the three who were not so hearty in the mutiny as the rest of the crew, and therefore was eas-ily persuaded not only to yield, but afterwards to join very sincerely with us.
-- This looked severe, and convinced them that the governor was in ear-nest; however, they had no way left them but to accept it; and it was now the business of the prisoners, as much as of the captain, to persuade the other five to do their duty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.
-- If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy."
-- "Oh, my love," cried Mrs. Palmer to her husband, who just then entered the room "you must help me to persuade the Miss Dashwoods to go to town this winter."
-- With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.
-- I shall persuade her if I can to go early to bed, for I am sure she wants rest."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly now he would persuade Carrie and all would be satisfactory.
-- She could not persuade herself as to the advisability of her promise, or that now, having given her word, she ought to keep it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If anybody can persuade him, she can.'
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