口語中的say

表示舉例--比如說
Any books, say, magazines are OK.
表示假設--姑且說
The number left was not great, say, only ten.余下的數目不大, 姑且說, 只有十個罷。
表示大約
If you read, say, twenty pages a day, you will
finish it in a month.你每天讀20頁左右，一個月就能讀完。
用作連詞，引導含虛擬語氣的條件句
Say your plan fails; then what do we do ?假定你的計劃失敗了, 那么我們怎么辦呢？
Say it were true, what then?
就說它是真的吧，又怎么樣呢？
say 作名詞
譯為要說的話; 意見; 發言權; [常用 the say]決定權
It was entirely their decision, I had no say in it.這件事完全是他們決定的, 我沒有發言權。
The father had the final say.父親有最后的決定權。