mention是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 提及， 说起，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
-- All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was separately touched by some specific recollection.
-- Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary, speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded with new-fallen snow?
-- Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
-- And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You've had a long walk, you know, or I wouldn't mention it.
-- Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
-- The day afore yesterday, a man-- you have been a married woman, ma'am, and I may mention it to you--a man, with hardly a rag upon his back (here Mrs. Corney looked at the floor), goes to our overseer's door when he has got company coming to dinner; and says, he must be relieved, Mrs. Corney.
-- 'How dare you mention such a thing, sir?
-- Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened; which no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.'
-- 'Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson; did not I mention it to you?
-- On his approaching them soon afterwards, though with-out seeming to have any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention such a subject to him; which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she turned to him and said: 'Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?'
-- They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave ani-mation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't mention it,' returned Mr Meagles, 'I am sure you are quite welcome.
-- He would mention him in laudatory terms to new-comers, when his back was turned.
-- Mr Clennam, as I have happened to mention handsome and delicate action, you may like, perhaps, to know what it was.'
-- 'It is so generous, and shows so much fine feeling, that it is almost a duty to mention it.
-- I said at the time that I always would mention it on every suitable occasion, without regard to personal sensitiveness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg stayed at home, lest she should infect the Kings, and kept house, feeling very anxious and a little guilty when she wrote letters in which no mention was made of Beth's illness.
-- 'There's gratitude for you!And speaking of gratitude reminds me to mention that you may thank Hannah for saving your wedding cake from destruction.
-- She did not mention this meeting at home (though she discovered that, thanks to the upset, her new dress was much damaged by the rivulets of dressing that meandered down the skirt), but went through with the preparations which now seemed more irksome than before, and at twelve o'clock all was ready again.
-- Any mention of her 'works' always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now.
-- You are too much alike and too fond of free-dom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.'
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