daring是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 大胆的， 勇敢的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman was out of the question in such an occupation at this hour, and the comer could be no less than a thief, who might probably have known the weakness of the household on this particular night, and have chosen it on that account for his daring attempt.
-- One or two men were speaking of a daring attempt that had just been made to rob a young lady by lifting the canvas of the tent beside her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with ir-regular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett tried to keep her eyes from these two but could not, and after each glance she redoubled her gaiety withher cavaliers, laughing, saying daring things, teasing, tossing her head at their compliments until her earrings danced.
-- Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leanedcloser and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.
-- Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck ofhis ship where he belonged.
-- When daring young ladies, hoping for a flirtation, thanked him for being one of the heroeswho fought for them, he bowed and declared that such was not the case, for he would do the same thing for Yankeewomen if the same amount of money were involved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick's daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
-- This p. 200other fear was so awful, that it hovered about each of them like a ghostly shadow; neither daring to think of its being near herself, far less of its being near the other.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS The huge volcano which was the first stage of our daring experiment is above five thousand feet high.
-- I became intoxicated with a sense of lofty sublimity, without thought of the abysses into which my daring was soon about to plunge me.
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：
-- And the Guth-ries, the family of four, were good solid Edinburgh middle class, enjoying everything in a solid fashion, and daring ev-erything while risking nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ingenious culprit was a man of great modesty and good sense; and, though a plain man, had been too much accustomed to combine what was original and daring in conception with what was patient and minute in execution, to be by any means an ordinary man.
-- This, though he supposed him to live by his wits at play-tables and the like; though he suspected him to be a coward, while he himself was daring and courageous; though he thoroughly knew him to be disliked by Minnie; and though he cared so little for him, after all, that if he had given her any tangible personal cause to regard him with aversion, he would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.
-- The idea of daring to pretend to assert that you have eyes in your head, and yet ask me what's the matter!'
-- To hint to him that this confinement in his eye was disagreeable, or to ask him what he meant, was an act too daring to venture upon; his severity with his employers and their visitors being terrific, and he never permitting himself to be approached with the slightest liberty.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- who liked to do daring things and was always scandalizing Meg by her queer performances.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
-- Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers.
-- So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man.
-- The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these things; the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness.
-- "Captain Ahab," said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin, with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than half distrustful of itself; "A better man than I might well pass over in thee what he would quickly enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in a happier, Captain Ahab."
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