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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the clouds remained unbroken for the present, and in the evening, after a brisk gallop of forty miles, the horses stopped on the brink of deep CANADAS, immense natural trenches filled with water.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to have been born with overwrought nerves, and in his passionate desire to excel, he was often led to the brink of some rash step; and yet, having resolved upon such a step, when the moment arrived, he invariably proved too sensible to take it.
-- We Russians no sooner arrive at the brink of the water, and re-alize that we are really at the brink, than we are so delighted with the outlook that in we plunge and swim to the farthest point we can see.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Son of Tydeus,' he said, 'why stand you cowering here upon the brink of bat-tle?
-- As a man crossing a wide plain is dismayed to find himself on the brink of some great river rolling swiftly to the sea he sees its boiling waters and starts back in fear even so did the son of Tydeus give ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was on the brink of saying something further, then looked up at me suddenly and fol-lowed me up the ladder.
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：
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tot-tered on the brink of the precipice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You was last seen on the brink of the wharf, and they think you tumbled over.
-- Oh!if I had him here!just to take him to the brink coaxingly and pleasantly, holding him by the button-hole joking with him, and, with a sudden push, to send him splashing down!Drowning men come to the surface three times they say.
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：
-- Gerald, on the brink of discussion, sniffed the air with delight and prepared for action.
-- The tall, thin man in his crumpled clothes was unnerved and irritable as a boy, finding himself on the brink of this social function.
-- Each on the brink of departure, the father and son looked at each other, then parted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had walked on the river's brink in the peaceful moonlight for some half an hour, he put his hand in his breast and tenderly took out the handful of roses.
-- Little Dorrit was in front with her brother and Mrs General (Mr Dorrit had remained at home), but on the brink of the quay they all came together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they put the bier on the brink of the grave; and the two mourners waited patiently in the damp clay, with a cold rain drizzling down, while the ragged boys whom the spectacle had attracted into the churchyard played a noisy game at hide-and-seek among the tombstones, or varied their amusements by jumping backwards and forwards over the coffin.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two gentlemen behind, on resuming their plac-es, after descending to the brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration.
-- I did not know before, that I had two daughters on the brink of matrimony.
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