Speak

(verb.) use language; 'the baby talks already'; 'the prisoner won't speak'; 'they speak a strange dialect'.

(verb.) make a characteristic or natural sound; 'The drums spoke'.

校对:赛克

• Speak to her, Miss Fanny! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He has just been saying that he doesn't care to speak of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Southey spoke of him as a miraculous young man, at whose talents he could only wonder. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give upparties, balls, playsfor I had no fear of retirement. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I knew Mrs. Reed had not spoken for days: was she reviving? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• One often speaks of a ring as being 14-carat gold, or of 22- or 18-carat watch cases or jewelry, but do all of us know just what we mean by 14, 18 or 22 carat? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Only it's dull enough to sit in a room where everything speaks to you of a dead friend. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Do not make a fool of thyself and I will try not to make a fool of myself talking with people who cannot understand what one speaks of. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• And he speaks uncommonly well--does Casaubon. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• So spake the doctor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She hears no more o' Mr. Moore's talk nor if he spake Hebrew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But the gentleman with the lumpy forehead having for the time delivered himself of all that he found behind his lumps, spake for the time no more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But the lumpy gentleman, unwilling to give it up, again madly said, 'ESKER,' and again spake no more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Presently they spake unto a citizen and said, Who is King in Ephesus? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:佩德罗