relate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 叙述， 讲述； 使互相关联，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：
-- Now I maintain that none of the words of the document could relate to these islands."
-- You will agree with me that, without straining the text, the English word STRA and the French one AUSTRAL may relate to Australia.
-- exclaimed the patriotic geographer; "and they relate that gravely?"
-- I will relate two facts which prove it."
-- "Yes, my Lord, the details I am in a position to give you relate to myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doubt-less there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.
-- I want to hear you relate something.
-- 'Well, when we tried it we were a party of people, like this, for instance; and somebody proposed that each of us, without leaving his place at the table, should relate some-thing about himself.
-- 'What simplifies the duty before me considerably, in my opinion,' he began, 'is that I am bound to recall and relate the very worst action of my life.
-- Adelaida and Aglaya rushed off with shrieks of laughter to relate this to their mother, but she was quite angry, and said her daughters were all fools.
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：
-- It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the inci-dents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to re-tain.
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：
-- My first idea was to begin it with the account of Strickland's last years in Tahiti and with his horrible death, and then to go back and relate what I knew of his beginnings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no occasion to relate that I succeeded.
-- 'It is your pleasure then, madame, that I shall relate a morsel of family history in this little family society,' said Rigaud, with a warning play of his lithe fingers on her arm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver's sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
-- Mr. Collins received and returned these felici-tations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the re-fusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
-- Scarcely a syllable was uttered that did not relate to the game, except when Mrs. Jenkinson expressed her fears of Miss de Bourgh's be-ing too hot or too cold, or having too much or too little light.
-- Such a disappointment!and with the knowledge of your ill opinion, too!and having to relate such a thing of his sister!It is really too distressing.
-- But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not be suspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage to shew Mrs. Gardiner's letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment towards him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rainy season and the dry season began now to appear regular to me, and I learned to divide them so as to provide for them accordingly; but I bought all my experience before I had it, and this I am going to relate was one of the most discouraging experiments that I made.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am sorry to relate what ensued.
-- Relate only what in your conscience you think necessary for me to hear."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The common type of mind is exceedingly keen on all matters which relate to its physical welfare--exceedingly keen.
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