cowardly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 胆小地，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：
-- It is a cowardly beast, that loves the darkness and dreads the light—an owl on four feet."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a certain point, I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.
-- 'Argives,' she cried; 'shame on cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; as long as Achilles was fighting, if his spear was so deadly that the Trojans dared not show themselves outside the Dardanian gates, but now they sally far from the city and fight even at your ships.'
-- From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying, 'Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?
-- Sir, think you that the sons of the Achaeans are indeed as unwarlike and cowardly as you say they are?
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
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：
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
-- 'Aye, shame on the Hollanders and Iroquois, who cir-cumvented them by their deviltries, into such a treaty!But I have known them for twenty years, and I call him liar that says cowardly blood runs in the veins of a Delaware.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will not listen to cowardly hints.
-- It's just the absurd, cowardly sort of thing these tired highbrows do that sneak off to some Esoteric Colony and think they're getting strength to conquer life, when they're merely running away from it."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an over-strained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
-- Stay here, stay!I'll go alone,' he cried in cowardly vexation, and al-most resentful, he moved towards the door.
-- He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was obvious to all now that the Yankees werefar from cowardly and that it would take more than one victory to conquer them.
-- Everyone knew there had never been a cowardly Confederate soldier and they found this statement peculiarlyirritating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So they looked up, and espied the wolf sitting amongst the branch-es; and they called him a cowardly rascal, and would not suffer him to come down till he was heartily ashamed of himself, and had promised to be good friends again with old Sultan.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cowardly children crept nearer also, Isabella lisping "Frightful thing!Put him in the cellar, papa.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think it would be almost cowardly and cruel not to have some little attachment for it, after all this.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.
-- That he had terminated his brief career in the place of his birth, by making a sanguinary and cowardly attack on an unoffending lad, and running away in the night-time from his master's house.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back put back, sir, into Port of Spain."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not down the cowardly thought that this man had something better and would stay to the end, drawing his last dollar into the pot, should he choose to go so far.
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