danger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 危险； 威胁； 危险事物，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was sodivided between pleasure and regret- pleasure in the achievementof a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personalconfidences and private emotions.
-- I had agreedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels- I forgetwhat, now- that were on those shelves; and for days and days I canremember to have gone about my region of our house, armed withthe centrepiece out of an old set of boot-trees-the perfect realisationof Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger ofbeing beset by savages, and resolved to sell his life at a great price.
-- Whether I was at all in danger of being hanged?
-- They made me laugh again by laughing at each other, and then weall three laughed until I was in danger of crying again.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone with-out liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his love-ly daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together; but when it appeared that the Mr. Martin, who bore a part in the narrative, and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good-nature in doing something or other, was a single man; that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case; she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospi-tality and kindness, and that, if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever.
-- There is no danger of your not being intelligible, which is the first thing.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This coolness may have owed its existence not so much to her fearlessness of expected danger as to her freedom from the suspicion of any; her worst anticipated discovery being that a horse might not be well bedded, the fowls not all in, or a door not closed.
-- This bit of the path was always the crux of the night's ramble, though, before starting, her apprehensions of danger were not vivid enough to lead her to take a companion.
-- The strange neglect which had produced this ruin and waste became the subject of whispered talk among all the people round; and it was elicited from one of Boldwood's men that forgetfulness had nothing to do with it, for he had been reminded of the danger to his corn as many times and as persistently as inferiors dared to do.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake.
-- But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my crea-ture I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations.
-- I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
-- We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in im-minent danger of being crushed in their conflict.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All ages and sexes went visiting, honeymooners, young mothersshowing off new babies, convalescents, the bereaved, girls whose parents were anxious to remove them from thedangers of unwise matches, girls who had reached the danger age without becoming engaged and who, it was hoped,would make suitable matches under the guidance of relatives in other places.
-- So the women swished their silks and laughed and, looking on their men with hearts bursting with pride, theyknew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
-- "I am not afraid of danger or capture or wounds or even death, if death must come, but I do fear that once this waris over, we will never get back to the old times.
-- After all, there's not so much danger here.
-- Itwasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her everyhour, every minute.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody's coming to take the pie away.
-- (To the boy, and with a dreadfully severe stare; foreseeing the danger of that miscreant's brushing me with it, or making some other sign of familiarity.)
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