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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was known to be brave to excess, and full of daring and chivalry—a Fer-gus of the nineteenth century; but his goodness excelled every other quality, and he was more charitable than St. Martin himself, for he would have given the whole of his cloak to any of the poor Highlanders.
-- A daring man he was, sir.
-- They wished one another "good-night," though hardly daring to hope for it, and then each one rolled himself in his poncho and lay down to sleep.
-- In the steppes of Siberia, in the plains of Central Asia, in the deserts of Africa, in the prairies of America, in the immense wilds of Australia, in the icy solitudes of the Poles, man scarcely dares to venture; the most daring shrinks back, the most courageous succumbs.
-- The daring boy, in spite of his sister's injunctions, was always in front, and the first to fire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rogojin asked his question like a lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose.
-- Here he threw a packet of banknotes tied up in white paper, on the table before her, not daring to say all he wished to say.
-- Rogojin simply stood staring, with trembling lips, not daring to believe his ears.
-- Of the rest of the audience, many had understood the allusion and wondered both at the daring of the lady and at the motive underlying it, but tried to show no sign of their feelings.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have never seen you in battle until now, but you are daring beyond all oth-ers if you abide my onset.
-- But Diomed stayed where he was, thinking what other daring deed he might accomplish.
-- Deiphobus son of Priam went about among them intent on deeds of daring with his round shield before him, under cover of which he strode quickly forward.
-- Iris fleet as the wind then answered, 'Am I really, Nep-tune, to take this daring and unyielding message to Jove, or will you reconsider your answer?
-- If the Tro-jans had any of that daring fearless spirit which lays hold of men who are fighting for their country and harassing those who would attack it, we should soon bear off Patroclus into Ilius.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the little being who stood trembling beneath Mr. Bumble's glance; not daring to lift his eyes from the floor; and dreading even to hear the beadle's voice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.
-- She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the servant was ap-proaching the door.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
-- I was indeed terribly surprised at the sight, and stopped short within my grove, not daring to go out, lest I might be surprised; and yet I had no more peace within, from the apprehensions I had that if these savages, in rambling over the island, should find my corn standing or cut, or any of my works or improvements, they would immediately con-clude that there were people in the place, and would then never rest till they had found me out.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experiences and triumphs, prevailed.
-- They were not timid, however; were rich in curiosity, and strong in daring and slang.
-- She looked simple and charming enough to strengthen the daring of any lover.
-- Still there is something in such daring and power which is fascinating to a woman, especially if she can be made to feel that it is all prompted by love of her.
-- Carrie almost trembled for her daring after she had said this.
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