dismay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. (使) 灰心丧气; 惊愕，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty gazed at her in dismay as she went up.
-- she said aloud, turning her head swiftly and looking him straight in the face, not with the bright expression that seemed covering something, but with a look of determination, under which she concealed with difficulty the dismay she was feeling.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch had begun to speak boldly, but as he realized plainly what he was speaking of, the dismay she was feeling infected him too.
-- Kitty let her eyes rest on Varenka's face, with a look of dismay and inquiry.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin's imaginative dismay at being caught here by Watters was not lessened when Leora and he reluctantly appeared on Sunday at one-thirty and were by a fury of Old Friendship dragged back into the days of Digamma Pi.
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：
-- The drunken man was more and more overcome by dismay and confusion as they drew nearer the house.
-- A look of dismay came into Luzhin's face.
-- He recognised suddenly, clearly, and with dismay that he ought at once to come to an understanding with that man and to make what terms he could.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was rather in dismay when only half a minute afterwards he be-gan to speak of other things, and in a voice of the greatest alacrity and enjoyment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lines of his features softened, and dismay modulated to illimitable sadness.
-- With a face of perplexed dismay Troy turned the corner and then beheld the wreck the stream had made.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, ap-pear to dismay them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally when the slight breeze veered, puffs of smokefrom the long barbecue pits floated over the crowd and were greeted with squeals of mock dismay from the ladies andviolent flappings of palmetto fans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole dis-trict was in sorrow and dismay because of them, and yet no one could do anything to stop this.
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：
-- I am nothing to myself' Connie heard it all with deepening dismay and re-pulsion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Miss Amy, I took the liberty of walking this way, because Mr Dorrit chanced to mention, when I called upon him just now, that you 'She caused him more dismay than before by suddenly murmuring, 'O father, father!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, to the dismay of the rest of the club, Jo threw open the door of the closet, and displayed Laurie sitting on a rag bag, flushed and twinkling with suppressed laughter.
-- So she took Amy by the hand, and taught her as she herself had been taught sixty years ago, a process which carried dismay to Amy's soul, and made her feel like a fly in the web of a very strict spider.
-- cried poor Jo, turning over a heap of notices, the perusal of which filled her with pride and joy one min-ute, wrath and dismay the next.
-- No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilar-ious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed.
-- No hint of this had reached the culprits, however, and Amy's dismay can be imagined, when, the very evening before the fair, as she was putting the last touches to her pretty table, Mrs. Chester, who, of course, resented the supposed ridicule of her daughter, said, in a bland tone, but with a cold look... 'I find, dear, that there is some feeling among the young ladies about my giving this table to anyone but my girls.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught else.
-- A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying along with him half of the harpoon line; and in the extraordinary agony of the wound, he was now dashing among the revolving circles like the lone mounted desperado Arnold, at the battle of Saratoga, carrying dismay wherever he went.
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