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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And meanwhile I have never been able, in spite of my great desire to do so, to persuade myself that there is no fu-ture existence, and no Providence.
-- 'Now and then I was able to persuade her almost to see light around her again; but she would soon fall, once more, into her old tormenting delusions, and would go so far as to reproach me for placing myself on a pedestal above her (I never had an idea of such a thing!
-- She tried to persuade me not to come, but I couldn't help myself, just for one minute.
-- By doing this they have been able to persuade themselves, without further trouble, that they have ac-quired new convictions of their own.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall not overreach and you shall not persuade me.
-- He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.'
-- Let me persuade you for it will be better thus stay the combat for to-day, but let them renew the fight hereafter till they compass the doom of Ilius, since you goddesses have made up your minds to destroy the city.'
-- Minerva assented, and Helenus son of Priam divined the counsel of the gods; he therefore went up to Hector and said, 'Hector son of Priam, peer of gods in counsel, I am your brother, let me then persuade you.
-- When the old man saw him he sprang from his seat, seized his hand, led him into the tent, and bade him take his place among them; but Patroclus stood where he was and said, 'Noble sir, I may not stay, you cannot persuade me to come in; he that sent me is not one to be trifled with, and he bade me ask who the wounded man was whom you were bearing away from the field.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I thought that the man I had just seen had been clothed in bluish cloth, had not been naked as a savage would have been; and I tried to persuade myself from that fact that he was after all probably a peaceful character, that the dull ferocity of his counte-nance belied him.
-- I could not persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also an-other Beast People, animals half wrought into the outward image of human souls, and that they would presently be-gin to revert, to show first this bestial mark and then that.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably propor-tioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolu-tion, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V. Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz has dealt in such terms with the Rev.
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
-- I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact that he had never shown any impatience with the monotony of his life.
-- "Do you know, when some Dutch people came here to buy Dirk's pictures he tried to persuade them to buy Strickland's?
-- I imagine that for months the matter never comes into your head, and you're able to persuade yourself that you've finished with it for good and all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lories are better food than the jacamar, the flesh of which is rather tough, but it was difficult to persuade Pencroft that he had not killed the king of eatable birds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 14As it was very easy for Kit to persuade himself that the old house was in his way, his way being anywhere, he tried to look upon his passing it once more as a matter of imperative and disagreeable necessity, quite apart from any desire of his own, to which he could not choose but yield.
-- If cattle have got their proper load, you never can persuade a woman that they'll not bear something more.
-- 'Let me persuade you, then oh, do let me persuade you,' said the child, 'to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.'
-- He would often persuade her to undertake his share of writing in addition to her own; nay, he would sometimes reward her with a hearty slap on the back, and protest that she was a devilish good fellow, a jolly dog, and so forth; all of which compliments Miss Sally would receive in entire good part and with perfect satisfaction.
-- 'And now I'm here,' thought Kit, gliding into the nearest empty pew which was opposite his mother's, and on the other side of the little aisle, 'how am I ever to get at her, or persuade her to come out!I might as well be twenty miles off.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Nekhludoff were clearly conscious of his love for Katiousha; especially if it were sought to persuade him that he could and must not link his fate to that of the girl, he would very likely have decided in his plumb-line mind that there was no reason why he should not marry her, no matter who she was, provided he loved her.
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