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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whilst he was sit-ting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and wished that one of the king's principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the 188 Grimms' Fairy Talestower, and if she were alive still, or had perished.
-- The princess asked what she meant, and she said, 'Let me speak with the bridegroom this night in his chamber, and I will give thee the dress.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did.
-- All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands to-gether in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hate-ful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.
-- It now began to be known and talked of in the neigh-bourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it like-wise imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old.
-- My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
-- My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next market-day; and in the meantime he pre-pared a convenient vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with my first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; it was up in the moon before it could speak distinctly.
-- He did not speak again until they had walked some half-a-mile in silence, when he gravely broke out with: 'What would your best friends say, Louisa?
-- I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables.'
-- They were wrong books I am never to speak of them here but we didn't know there was any harm in them.'
-- Would his servant say that one of the Hands begged leave to speak to him?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not pretend, like a certain learned pundit, to speak the two thousand languages and four thousand idioms made use of in different parts of the globe, but he did know all the more important ones.
-- I could not speak it.
-- For a minute or two he hesitated, as if unwilling to speak; to speak openly was, perhaps, to unveil his projects.
-- cried the Professor of Reykjavik; "you speak of one of the most distinguished scholars of the sixteenth century, of the great naturalist, the great alchemist, the great traveler."
-- Those who could speak kept crying out saellvertu in every possible and impossible key.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He can speak per-fectly well, for him.
-- I suppose he has an idea if he's come down to the ranks again, he'd better speak as the ranks speak.'
-- 'Why don't you speak ordinary English?'
-- Speak to me!Say something to me!'
-- 'My dear, you speak as if you were ushering it all in!True, you am going away on a holiday: but don't please be quite so indecently elated about it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She'll speak to you about it herself, and now she'll find you prepared, Affery."
-- 'Shall I speak of our affairs, mother?
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