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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican.
-- Her confidence in him, the affection of this uprooted old woman bewildered in a strange land, overcame him; he lost all his whisky- colored feeling that he was a nimble fellow, and in a melancholy way, with all the weight of life again upon him, he sighed that no, nothing had happened, but he'd forgotten to tell Madeline something--so shor--so sorry call so late--could he speak Mad just minute-- Then Madeline was bubbling, "Why, Marty dear, what is it?
-- She seemed to speak with her pointed nose as much as with her button of a mouth.
-- II Max Gottlieb's wife was thick and slow-moving and mute; at sixty she had not learned to speak easy English; and her German was of the small-town bourgeois, who pay their debts and over-eat and grow red.
-- Gottlieb was so angry that he forgot to speak English, and as all his cursing was in student German, in a creaky dry voice, the whole scene was very funny indeed to the cackling bookkeeper and the girl stenographers.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dirt and disorder, a perfect Bedlam 芒聙娄 hm 芒聙娄 yes 芒聙娄 And mean-while my daughter by my first wife has grown up; and what my daughter has had to put up with from her step-mother whilst she was growing up, I won't speak of.
-- Was it all put into words or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it.
-- She stepped back in alarm, tried to say something, but seemed unable to speak and stared with open eyes at him.
-- 'Good evening, Alyona Ivanovna,' he began, trying to speak easily, but his voice would not obey him, it broke and shook.
-- flashed through his mind, but the unknown began to speak and he recovered himself at once.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- I had perception enough to know that mymother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me,or be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by hermanner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she wasnot only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of myoffending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.
-- 'I want to speak to you very particularly.
-- Mr.Chillip is in the room, and comes to speak to me.
-- 'Well, my life,' said Peggotty, giving me a squeeze, 'I have thoughtof it night and day, every way I can, and I hope the right way; butI'll think of it again, and speak to my brother about it, and in themeantime we'll keep it to ourselves, Davy, you and me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, know-ing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, ev-ery scheme of hers one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- Harriet was very ready to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and obliging.
-- 72 Emma 'Pray, Mr. Knightley,' said Emma, who had been smiling to herself through a great part of this speech, 'how do you know that Mr. Martin did not speak yesterday?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them; more probably she felt none, for in gaining her a passage he had lost her her point, and we know how women take a favour of that kind.
-- "Will you tell Miss Everdene that somebody would be glad to speak to her?"
-- You speak like a lady all the parish notice it, and your uncle at Weatherbury is, I have heerd, a large farmer much larger than ever I shall be.
-- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.
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