threat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 恐吓， 威胁； 坏兆头， 危险迹象，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without returning the wish, Carton rose too, with something of a threat of defiance in his manner, and said, 'A last word, Mr. Darnay: you think I am drunk?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, thanks to this circumstance, she did not carry out her threat to her husband--that is to say, she remembered that her sister-in-law was coming.
-- "You can conjecture what awaits you and your son...." "That's a threat to take away my child, and most likely by their stupid law he can.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II With the heat and the threat of hurricanes, there were few first- class passengers on the St. Buryan, and most of these did not count, because they were not jolly, decent Yankee tourists but merely South Americans.
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：
-- There is one expression, 'blame yourselves' put in very significantly and plainly, and there is besides a threat that he will go away at once if I am present.
-- That threat to go away is equivalent to a threat to abandon you both if you are disobedient, and to abandon you now after summoning you to Petersburg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the manner of the speech, no less than the matter, was so fiery,that Miss Murdstone, without a word in answer, discreetly put herarm through her brother's, and walked haughtily out of thecottage; my aunt remaining in the window looking after them;prepared, I have no doubt, in case of the donkey's reappearance, tocarry her threat into instant execution.
-- I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that theunknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one ofthe line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so muchdifficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain thequestion whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might havebeen twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under myaunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kindfeeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been inducedto pay a price for his peace and quiet.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea of renewing my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a voluntary act of mine could avert it.
-- Elizabeth Lavenza231 Geneva, May 18th, 17 This letter revived in my memory what I had before for-gotten, the threat of the fiend '*I will be with you on your wedding-night!
-- He had vowed *to 232 Frankensteinbe with me on my wedding-night*, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.
-- But to me the re-membrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words '*I shall be with you on your wedding-night*,' I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.
-- Indeed, as the period ap-proached, the threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded as worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty as the day fixed for its solemnization drew nearer and I heard it continually spoken of as an occurrence which no accident could possibly prevent.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left taxation that ate up crops and barnsand the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation he intended to have them.
-- It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heart-stricken Pierre Robillard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This terrible threat caused the two women to fall off immediately.
-- Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore, took up a large glass, and would have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.
-- Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Haply,' he said, turning his furrowed face slowly about, that he might as it were individually address the whole audience, those both near and distant; 'haply, when this question has been tak'n up and discoosed, there'll be a threat to turn out if I'm let to work among yo.
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：
-- They were rather earnest about the Tommies, and the threat of conscription, and the shortage of sugar and toffee for the children.
-- That was how she had seen him, like the sudden rush of a threat out of nowhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He refuses to make any abatement, because his threat is, that if he fails with me, he will come to you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie spoke excitedly, and looked ready to carry his threat into execution on the slightest provocation, for he was growing up very fast and, in spite of his indolent ways, had a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's rest-less longing to try the world for himself.
-- The threat sounded awful, but did not alarm Jo, for she knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary.
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