attack是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 攻击, 非难, 疾病发作，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still,she was jarred at hearing him attack the very traditions that irked her most.
-- They reached the little town of Calhoun, six miles below Resaca, ahead of the Yankees, entrenchedand were again ready for the attack when the Yankees came up.
-- The attack came, there was fierce skirmishing and theYankees were beaten back.
-- Frightened, praying that Hood's attack would drive the Yankees back, everyone listened to the sound of boomingcannon and the crackling of thousands of rifles which, though five miles away from the center of town, were so loud asto seem almost in the next block.
-- Why can't they find some other place to attack the railroad?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIWith my head full of George Barnwell, I was at first disposed to believe that I must have had some hand in the attack upon my sister, or at all events that as her near relation, popularly known to be under obligations to her, I was a more legitimate object of suspicion than any one else.
-- Curious to know whether Biddy suspected him of having had a hand in that murderous attack of which my sister had never been able to give any account, I asked her why she did not like him.
-- Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon my sister, her illness, and her death, before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as I have been always told, and found true by experience in my trav- 107els, that flying or discovering fear before a fierce animal, is a certain way to make it pursue or attack you, so I resolved, in this dangerous juncture, to show no manner of concern.
-- These horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides, and 110 Gulliver's Travelsone of them held his fore-feet at my collar; but I had the good fortune to rip up his belly before he could do me any mischief.
-- However, I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air.
-- I told his majesty, 'that in Europe we had no monkeys, except such as were brought for curiosity from other places, and so small, that I could deal with a dozen of them together, if they pre-sumed to attack me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should have a violent attack of the cramp if I were not to have some sort of exercise.
-- It was, however, impossible in a moment more not to both understand and applaud, and even to smother him in my embraces, when I saw him raise the heavy crowbar and commence an attack upon the rock itself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man with a gun strode swift-ly, softly out after the dog, facing their way as if about to attack them; then stopped instead, saluted, and was turn-ing downhill.
-- The last attack had been too grim. This meant her living alone, till spring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Fanny, affrighted and bursting into tears, 'why do you attack me in this cruel manner?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was bitter cold in the morning, she dropped her precious turnover in the gutter, Aunt March had an attack of the fidgets, Meg was sensitive, Beth would look grieved and wistful when she got home, and Amy kept making remarks about people who were always talk-ing about being good and yet wouldn't even try when other people set them a virtuous example.
-- While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promis-cuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 45, he speaks of "the mysterious and mortal attack of the animal."
-- "Steelkilt glanced round him a moment, and then said: 'I tell you what it is now, Captain, rather than kill ye, and be hung for such a shabby rascal, we won't lift a hand against ye unless ye attack us; but till you say the word about not flogging us, we don't do a hand's turn.'
-- On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated from the water that escaped at the lip.
-- They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
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