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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my dismay the creature flew straight for the great mire, and my acquaintance never paused for an instant, bounding from tuft to tuft behind it, his green net waving in the air.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince discovered to his dismay that Hippolyte had been allowed to drink two large glasses of champagne; the one now standing by him being the third.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay and to his own great glo-ry.'
-- The son of Atreus in dismay bade the heralds call the people to a council man by man, but not to cry the matter aloud; he made haste also himself to call them, and they sat sorry at heart in their assembly.
-- He recks not of the dismay that reigns in our host; our most valiant chieftains lie disabled, brave Diomed, son of Tyde-us, is wounded; so are Ulysses and Agamemnon; Eurypylus has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field he too wounded with an arrow.
-- Helmet and shield rang out as the great stones rained upon them, and Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, in his dismay cried aloud and smote his two thighs.
-- 'Sir,' he cried, 'draw near; why do you think thus vainly to dismay the Argives?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
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：
-- His round eyes grew rounder still, and his brow puckered in dismay as he saw that she was angry.
-- I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun looked in dismay on Sir Joshua, who stood up to the breast in the water, his long, greyish hair washed down into his eyes, his neck set into thick, crude shoulders.
-- She shut off the fear and dismay that filled her conscious mind.
-- As for the future, that they never mentioned except one laughed out some mocking dream of the destruction of the world by a ridiculous catastrophe of man's invention: a man invented such a perfect explosive that it blew the earth in two, and the two halves set off in different directions through space, to the dismay of the inhabitants: or else the people of the world divided into two halves, and each half decided it was perfect and right, the other half was wrong and must be destroyed; so another end of the world.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent expla-nations.
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