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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.
-- I staggered on, my head reeling and my heart beating against my ribs, tired almost to death, and yet not daring to lose sight of the chase lest I should be left alone with this horrible companion.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- Every few yards as he proceeded he was challenged by the sentinels; but he stalked sullenly onward, utterly disregard-ing the summons of the soldiers, who only spared his life because they knew the air and tread no less than the obsti-nate daring of an Indian.
-- But when time was given for reflection, and the warriors remembered that their for-midable and daring enemy had even been in the bosom of their encampment, working injury, fearful rage took the place of wonder, and all those fierce passions with which the bosom of Magua had just been struggling were sud-denly transferred to his companions.
-- Still Magua, though daring and much ex-posed, escaped from every effort against his life, with that sort of fabled protection that was made to overlook the for-tunes of favored heroes in the legends of ancient poetry.
-- Why should not such a predilection be encouraged!That she was of a blood purer and richer than the rest of her nation, any eye might have seen; that she was equal to the dangers and daring of a life in the woods, her conduct had proved; and now, they added, the 'wise one of the earth' had transplant-ed her to a place where she would find congenial spirits, and might be forever happy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring an engineer as Cyrus Harding knew perfectly well how to manage a balloon.
-- Our readers will recollect what befell these five daring individuals who set out on their hazardous expedition in the balloon on the 20th of March.
-- Neb's companions had watched his daring attempt with painful anxiety, and when he was out of sight, they fixed their attention on the land where their hope of safety lay, while eating some shell- fish with which the sand was strewn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some years he continued a deadly foe to Kit, protesting that he had a better opinion of him when he was supposed to have stolen the five-pound note, than when he was shown to be perfectly free of the crime; inasmuch as his guilt would have had in it something daring and bold, whereas his innocence was but another proof of a sneaking and crafty disposition.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had just passed her sixteenth year when the ladies were visited by their nephew, a rich student, and Katiousha, without daring to confess it to him, or even to herself, fell in love with him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That we should have risked a second boat load seems more daring than it really was.
-- They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by John, as if his daring helped them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun came down in a daring gown of vivid green silk and tissue of gold, with green velvet bodice and a strange black-and-white band round her hair.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
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