speak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 说话， 讲话； 演说， 发言； (in) 说某种语言，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Speak comfort to me, Jacob!'
-- Will you not speak to me.'
-- When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met.
-- Speak out plain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago?'
-- These had been oiled and oiled, until the two tall candles on the table in the middle of the room were gloomily reflected on every leaf; as if THEY were buried, in deep graves of black mahogany, and no light to speak of could be expected from them until they were dug out.
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- 'You speak collectedly, and you ARE collected.
-- But, by this time she trembled under such strong emotion, and her face expressed such deep anxiety, and, above all, such dread and terror, that Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall speak about it at the first opportunity.
-- 'Rather speak of something at which one may laugh heartily.
-- 'Yes listen,' said the Raven; 'but it will be difficult for me to speak your language.
-- 'No, I have not learnt it,' said Gerda; 'but my grandmoth-100 Andersen's Fairy Taleser understands it, and she can speak gibberish too.
-- 'The newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the initials of the Princess; and therein you might read that every good-looking young man was at lib-erty to come to the palace and speak to the Princess; and he who spoke in such wise as showed he felt himself at home there, that one the Princess would choose for her husband.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A secretary, with the good- humored deference common to every one in Stepan Arkadyevitch's office, came up with papers, and began to speak in the familiar and easy tone which had been introduced by Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat--all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
-- "Go and speak to her, she likes you so much."
-- And there's no one I could speak of it to, except you.
-- Kitty did not speak nor lift her eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You speak confidently.
-- But, though my means will not admit of my expending them as freely as you, I must ask to pay my share ""Let us not speak of that, sir," replied Mr. Fogg.
-- At last he said in a low voice to Mr. Fogg, "Shall I speak out to your honour?"
-- What a journey!The travellers, huddled close together, could not speak for the cold, intensified by the rapidity at which they were going.
-- Often, also, the worthy fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen, distrustful eye; but he did not speak to him, for their old intimacy no longer existed.
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