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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother, I grieve to hear you speak like this, though I have had my apprehensions that you would ''You knew I would.
-- 'You speak so mysteriously.'
-- 'In grasping at money and in driving hard bargains I have begun, and I must speak of such things now, mother some one may have been grievously deceived, injured, ruined.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looks as if he'd like to know us but he's bashful, and Meg is so prim she won't let me speak to him when we pass,' said Jo, as the plates went round, and the ice began to melt out of sight, with ohs and ahs of satisfaction.
-- 'We were not allowed to speak anything else at Vevay.'
-- The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but hap-pening to meet Jo at at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.
-- Before Mrs. March could reply, Mr. Laurence went on with an odd little nod and smile... 'They needn't see or speak to anyone, but run in at any time.
-- Jo saw that her mother's eyes filled and her lips trem-bled as she spoke, and fearing that she had said too much, she whispered anxiously, 'Was it wrong to watch you and to speak of it?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
-- I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
-- There was no hair on his head none to speak of at least nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead.
-- We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.
-- And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Did your worship speak to me?'
-- said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt-edged lappel of his official coat; 'that's just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.
-- 'No boy in half his senses could venture to speak so to you.'
-- Speak out, boy!Quick--quick!for your life.
-- 'Oh, he won't speak out, won't he?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves.
-- I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life.'
-- 'I would not wish to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think.'
-- 'Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter; Darcy must speak for himself.'
-- 'The person of whom I speak is a gentleman, and a strang- er.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
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