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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I may say so to your Lordship, but I should not like to alarm Lady Glenarvan or Miss Grant."
-- The steam was escaping violently, not by the funnel, but from the safety-valves of the boiler; the alarm whistle sounded unnaturally loud, and the yacht made a frightful pitch, overturning Wilson, who was at the wheel, by an unexpected blow from the tiller.
-- It need hardly be said these precautions were adopted without the knowledge of Lady Helena and Mary Grant, as Lord Glenarvan did not wish to alarm them.
-- He remained motionless long enough to alarm his companions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This witness was the prince, who now advanced in alarm and muttered to Gania: 'Drink some water, and don't look like that!'
-- He sat at the table and seemed to be feeling, by turns, sensations of alarm and rapture.
-- The two girls, though rather irritated at their mother's exaggerated alarm and haste to depart from the scene, had been unwilling to worry her at first with questions.
-- The first sensation of alarm soon gave place to amusement; some burst out laughing loud and hearti-ly, and seemed to find a malicious satisfaction in the joke.
-- The prince jumped up in alarm at Aglaya's sudden wrath, and a mist seemed to come before his eyes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Menelaus reassured him and said, 'Take heart, and do not alarm the people; the arrow has not struck me in a mortal part, for my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it, and under this my cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze-smiths made me.'
-- Ringing as the note of a trumpet that sounds alarm then the foe is at the gates of a city, even so brazen was the voice of the son of Aeacus, and when the Trojans heard its clarion tones they were dismayed; the horses turned back with their chariots for they boded mischief, and their drivers were awe-struck by the steady flame which the grey-eyed goddess had kindled above the head of the great son of Peleus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cry of alarm began and was stifled in my throat.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eliz-abeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience from expressing in her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance.
-- When they ascended the steps to the hall, Maria's alarm was every moment increasing, and even Sir William did not look perfectly calm.
-- Wickham's alarm now appeared in a heightened com-plexion and agitated look; for a few minuted he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents: 'You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the APPEARANCE of what is right.
-- She was now in an irritation as vio-lent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation.
-- Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an aston-ishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of talking to her brother.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I found, to my great comfort, how happy it was that I had provided a tame flock or herd of goats, for I durst not upon any ac-count fire my gun, especially near that side of the island where they usually came, lest I should alarm the savages; and if they had fled from me now, I was sure to have them come again with perhaps two or three hundred canoes with them in a few days, and then I knew what to expect.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after this, upon Elinor's leaving the room, "Mama," said Marianne, "I have an alarm on the subject of illness which I cannot conceal from you.
-- But not so easily did Elinor recover from the alarm into which it had thrown her.
-- Mrs. Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.
-- Their engagements at Exeter instantly gave way before such an invitation, and Lady Middleton was thrown into no little alarm on the return of Sir John, by hearing that she was very soon to receive a visit from two girls whom she had never seen in her life, and of whose elegance, whose tolerable gentility even, she could have no proof; for the assurances of her husband and mother on that subject went for nothing at all.
-- The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood took the alarm of the paper and sat still.
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