alarm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 警报; 惊慌; vt. 使忧虑，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never mentioned it before, because she would not alarm us.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were now apparently close upon Weatherbury and not to alarm the speakers unnecessarily, Gabriel slipped out of the waggon unseen.
-- Do it quietly; there is no reason for alarm as yet.
-- He knew her so well that no eccentricity of behaviour in her would alarm him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlettwould have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: "How wonderful you are!"
-- I do not want to alarm the others.
-- You ladies need have no alarm about the proximity of the Yankees, for General Johnston and his armystands there in the mountains like an iron rampart.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his alarm and flurry, he threw the wood here and there about the floor, called and searched, but no cook was to be found.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Sissy Jupe thrown into the greatest alarm by this demand.)
-- 'You alarm me, Mr. Harthouse.
-- No alarm takes place, till this chap, Bitzer, turns out this morning, and begins to open and prepare the offices for business.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amazement, incredulity, and rage were blended in such a way as to alarm me.
-- Half-naked, with tangled, matted and ragged beards, we did look supremely ill-favored; and unless the country was a bandit land, we were not likely to alarm the inhabitants!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met her eyes raised to his with so much wonder in them (she was scared when the encounter took place, and shrunk away again), that he felt it necessary to say:'I have a reason for asking, which I cannot very well explain; but you must, on no account, suppose it to be of a nature to cause you the least alarm or anxiety.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, if after he fetches a few breaths you alarm him, so that he sounds, he will be always dodging up again to make good his regular allowance of air.
-- Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre's pit, they will, at the slightest alarm of fire, rush helter-skelter for the outlets, crowding, trampling, jamming, and remorselessly dashing each other to death.
-- But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew, the old man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, "I have it!It has happened before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was Oliver's horror and alarm as he stood a few paces off, looking on with his eyelids as wide open as they would possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman's pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief!To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to behold them, both running away round the corner at full speed!
-- Oliver sat huddled together, in a corner of the cart; bewildered with alarm and apprehension; and figuring strange objects in the gaunt trees, whose branches waved grimly to and fro, as if in some fantastic joy at the desolation of the scene.
-- In the short time he had had to collect his senses, the boy had firmly resolved that, whether he died in the attempt or not, he would make one effort to dart upstairs from the hall, and alarm the family.
-- There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm bell, resounded in every direction.
-- 'Here's the house broken into,' said the doctor, 'and a couple of men catch one moment's glimpse of a boy, in the midst of gunpowder smoke, and in all the distraction of alarm and darkness.
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