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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this Moor, to get something for our subsistence on board; for I told him we must not presume to eat of our patron's bread.
-- But, when I ob-served the course she steered, I was soon convinced they were bound some other way, and did not design to come any nearer to the shore; upon which I stretched out to sea as much as I could, resolving to speak with them if possible.
-- Evil: I have no soul to speak to or relieve me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This," said he, "cannot hold; but a change, a total change of sentiments No, no, do not desire it; for when the romantic refinements of a young mind are obliged to give way, how frequently are they succeeded by such opinions as are but too common, and too dangerous!I speak from experience.
-- I was startled, I confess, by the alteration in his manners this morning; he did not speak like himself, and did not return your kindness with any cordiality.
-- "You speak very properly.
-- She was sitting near the window, and as soon as Sir John perceived her, he left the rest of the party to the ceremony of knocking at the door, and stepping across the turf, obliged her to open the casement to speak to him, though the space was so short between the door and the window, as to make it hardly possible to speak at one without being heard at the other.
-- This is always the way with him!Sometimes he won't speak to me for half a day together, and then he comes out with something so droll all about any thing in the world."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would speak for that when silent on all else.
-- It was difficult to speak to Minnie about this, but at last she summoned the courage.
-- There had been something so personal, so subtle, in each meeting between them, both when Drouet was present and when he was absent, that Carrie could not speak of it without feeling a sense of difficulty.
-- How suave was the counsel of his appearance!How feelingly did his superior state speak for itself!The growing desire he felt for her lay upon her spirit as a gentle hand.
-- I want to speak with you before we meet at the theatre."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe.
-- But he said it warn't no use, nothing but to be dead and done with it all could do him any good; though he said it often made him feel easier and better for a while if people treated him ac-cording to his rights, and got down on one knee to speak to him, and always called him 'Your Majesty,' and waited on him first at meals, and didn't set down in his presence till he asked them.
-- Well, the first I knowed the king got a-going, and you could hear him over everybody; and next he went a-charg-ing up on to the platform, and the preacher he begged him to speak to the people, and he done it.
-- Then the king begins to work his jaw again, and says how him and his nieces would be glad if a few of the main princi-pal friends of the family would take supper here with them this evening, and help set up with the ashes of the diseased; and says if his poor brother laying yonder could speak he knows who he would name, for they was names that was very dear to him, and mentioned often in his letters; and so he will name the same, to wit, as follows, vizz.
-- She said, don't say nothing about the Proc- tors, but only about the Apthorps which 'll be per- fectly true, because she is going there to speak about their buying the house; I know it, because she told me so herself.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To speak sensibly, I think assassins have been invented by fathers and mothers to frighten children who want to run away at night.
-- "My dear boy," said the Fairy, "people who speak as you do usually end their days either in a prison or in a hospital.
-- Can't you hear that I speak and think as you do?"
-- "Don't speak about it," wailed Pinocchio, still trembling with fright.
-- "You speak well, but I cannot swim, my dear Pinocchio."
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