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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Argives,' said he, 'slacken not one whit in your onset; father Jove will be no helper of liars; the Trojans have been the first to break their oaths and to attack us; therefore they shall be devoured of vultures; we shall take their city and carry off their wives and children in our ships.'
-- Death and destruc-tion shall be theirs, seeing they have been the first to break their oaths and to attack us.'
-- Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephalleni-ans round him; they had not yet heard the battle-cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fight-ing.
-- He was like a lion that some mountain shepherd has wounded, but not killed, as he is springing over the wall of a sheep-yard to attack the sheep.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had half a mind to attack him about the men on the beach.
-- At any rate the Thing, whatever it was, lacked the courage to attack me.
-- Whatever it was, the Thing either lacked the courage to attack me, or it was waiting to take me at some disadvantage.
-- I saw the yellow eyes of the Hyena-swine blazing with excitement, his attitude as if he were half resolved to attack me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They may attack again.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You believe, then, the attack will be renewed?'
-- But with the solitary and fruitless attempt made on the life of Chingachgook, the attack appeared to have terminated.
-- He again recounted the events of the attack on the island at Glenn's, the death of his associates and the escape of their most formidable enemies.
-- The youth looked anxiously about him for some weapon, with which he might make a resistance against the attack he now seriously expected.
-- 'My pursuits are peaceful, and my temper, I humbly trust, is greatly given to mercy and love,' returned David, a little nettled at so direct an attack on his manhood; 'but there are none who can say that I have ever forgotten my faith in the Lord, even in the greatest straits.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In due course a legend arose of such circumstantiality that the wise historian would hesitate to attack it.
-- The attack was so unprovoked that Stroeve, taken unawares, was defenceless.
-- A ship bound for Australia had sent to the Sailors' Home for a stoker in place of one who had thrown himself overboard off Gibraltar in an attack of delirium tremens.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ragged masses of vapor drove along the beach, on which the tormented shingles sounded as if poured out in cart- loads, while the sand raised by the wind added as it were mineral dust to that which was liquid, and rendered the united attack insupportable.
-- Happily the creature did not attack them, or they might not have escaped without a severe wound.
-- "We will not ask more from it," replied the sailor, During this excursion they saw several wild boars, which however, did not offer to attack the little band, and it appeared as if they would not meet with any dangerous beasts; when, in a thick part of the wood, the reporter thought he saw, some paces from him, among the lower branches of a tree, an animal which he took for a bear, and which he very tranquilly began to draw.
-- To attack this mass of granite, even by a mine, was Herculean work, and it was really vexing that nature could not help them at their need.
-- Neb, his iron-tipped spear in his hand, wished to go to Top's help, and attack the dangerous animal in its own element.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- They were soon in habits of constant intercourse and communication; and the single gentleman labouring at this time under a slight attack of illness the consequence most probably of his late excited feelings and subsequent disappointment furnished a reason for their holding yet more frequent correspondence; so that some one of the inmates of Abel Cottage, Finchley, came backwards and forwards between that place and Bevis Marks, almost every day.
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