brink是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 边缘(通常指处于某种糟糕的局势中)，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I doubt, sir,' returned the nephew, 'whether, if it had car-ried me to the utmost brink of death, you would have cared to stop me there.'
-- A try-ing suspense, to be passing a whole summer night on the brink of the black ocean, ready to take that plunge into it upon which Monsieur Gabelle had resolved!But, the friendly dawn appearing at last, and the rush-candles of the village guttering out, the people happily dispersed, and Monsieur Gabelle came down bringing his life with him for that while.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you knew what it is for me!When I feel as I do now that you are hostile, yes, hostile to me, if you knew what this means for me!If you knew how I feel on the brink of calamity at this instant, how afraid I am of myself!"
-- And she, remembering the words that had given her the victory, "how I feel on the brink of calamity, how afraid I am of myself," saw that this weapon was a dangerous one, and that it could not be used a second time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I said 'No,' and I added, 'You don't seem to be,either, though you say you are';- for she was walking much toonear the brink of a sort of old jetty or wooden causeway we hadstrolled upon, and I was afraid of her falling over.
-- 'My dear Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber,'yourself and Mr. Traddles find us on the brink of migration, andwill excuse any little discomforts incidental to that position.'
-- As soon as she came here, and saw the water, she stopped as if shehad come to her destination; and presently went slowly along bythe brink of the river, looking intently at it.
-- If she were not true to it, might the object she now had in life,which bound her to something devoid of evil, in its passing awayfrom her, leave her more forlorn and more despairing, if that were 633possible, than she has been upon the river's brink that night; andthen might all help, human and Divine, renounce her evermore!
-- When my child,' he said aloud, andwith an energy of gratitude that shook him from head to foot,'stood upon the brink of more than I can say or think on- Martha,trew to her promise, saved her!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not long after a form moved by the brink of the river.
-- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a 15question addressed to me from a man on the brink of de-struction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
-- It was a bold ques-tion, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becom-50 Frankensteining acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
-- Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had alighted from Joe's back on the brink of the ditch when we came up, and had not moved since.
-- The joy attended Mr. Wopsle through his struggle with Laertes on the brink of the orchestra and the grave, and slackened no more until he had tumbled the king off the kitchen-table, and had died by inches from the ankles upward.
-- I felt that I had come to the brink of my grave.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as the dwarf came to the brink of it, he saw the two ducks whose lives he had saved swimming about; and they dived down and soon brought in the key from the bottom.
-- The boy placed himself by the brink of the well, and often saw a golden fish or a golden snake show itself therein, and took care that nothing fell in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the brink of the abyss.
-- The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.
-- Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass.
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：
-- Only the hens, fluffed so wonderfully on the eggs, were warmwith their hot, brooding female bodies!Connie felt herself living on the brink of fainting all the time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Meagles, Doyce, and Clennam, without speaking, walked up and down on the brink of the river, in the light of the rising moon, for a few minutes; and then Doyce lingered behind, and went into the house.
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