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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the evening, when she was sitting alone in her room, Mr. Halbert, the house steward, came in and asked if she would see a young girl and boy that wanted to speak to Lord Glenarvan.
-- The girl seemed too shy to utter a word at first, but Lady Helena quickly relieved her embarrassment by saying, with an encouraging smile: "You wish to speak to me, I think?"
-- "Very well, then," exclaimed little Robert, "I'll go and speak to those people myself, and we'll see if they—" He did not complete his sentence, for his sister stopped him; but his clenched fists showed his intentions were the reverse of pacific.
-- Suppliants but too rarely reach the steps of a throne; it seems as if royal palaces had the same inscription on their doors that the English have on their ships: Passengers are requested not to speak to the man at the wheel.
-- Just imagine no vines to speak of being in Madeira!In 1813, 22,000 pipes of wine were made there, and in 1845 the number fell to 2,669.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I speak not as a medical man but as a trustee and executor of Sir Charles's will.'
-- So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more West-ern dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
-- Speak out, man, and don't stand staring!'
-- I will not speak about it just now, but it should make my next report inter-esting reading.
-- 'I knew that Barrymore walked about nights, and I had a mind to speak to him about it,' said he.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And his father,' he added, for the prince's instruction, 'and his father would have given a man a ticket to the other world for ten roubles any day not to speak of ten thousand!'
-- 'Yes, indeed I had a good deal; and, would you believe it, I often wonder at myself for not having forgotten how to speak Russian?
-- Aglaya's husband was to be a compendium of all the virtues, and of all success, not to speak of fabulous wealth.
-- Having arrived at Nastasia's house one day, with Epanchin, Totski immediately began to speak of the intolerable torment of his position.
-- Having remarked how difficult it was for him, of all people, to speak to her of these matters, Totski concluded by saying that he trusted Nasta-sia Philipovna would not look with contempt upon him if he now expressed his sincere desire to guarantee her future by a gift of seventy-five thousand roubles.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Achilles answered, 'Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Dan-aan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- Granted that the gods have made him a great warrior, have they also given him the right to speak with railing?'
-- Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea.'
-- Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea.'
-- Diomed made no answer, for he was shamed by the re-buke of Agamemnon; but the son of Capaneus took up his words and said, 'Son of Atreus, tell no lies, for you can speak truth if you will.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I speak for the man's cub.
-- I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
-- 'Knowing that I have no right to speak here, I ask your leave.'
-- 'Speak then,' cried twenty voices.
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