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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not safe!Could I feel easy did I feel at ease when any danger threatened you?'
-- In this way she advanced within a few feet of the fire, and standing among a few young trees, could both see and hear, without much danger of being observed.
-- Indeed you do not know the danger that we shun, and how right and true we are in flying from it, or you would not try to stop us, I am sure you would not.'
-- Then they whispered and laughed for a long time about there being no danger if it was well done, and then Mr Brass pulls out his pocket-book, and says, "Well," he says, "here it is Quilp's own five-pound note.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You must fathom the significance of this crime, the danger to society that lurks in such pathological, as it were, individuals as Maslova.
-- The ashes were still intact, but had already cracked and were in danger of collapse.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in my pocket.
-- For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
-- Even were there no other lurking danger a danger I did not care to let my imagination loose upon there would still be all the roots to stumble over and the tree-boles to strike against.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But what could it do, if any danger came?'
-- So I had a very little way to fall, you see But there was the danger of falling into it, to be sure.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.
-- As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings.
-- Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft, but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing-place behind the point.
-- The one source of danger was the gun.
-- To add to our concern, we heard voices already drawing near us in the woods along shore, and we had not only the danger of being cut off from the stockade in our half-crippled state but the fear before us whether, if Hunter and Joyce were attacked by half a dozen, they would have the sense and conduct to stand firm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was then no longer a scientific problem to be solved, but a real danger seriously to be avoided.
-- The danger could not be imminent.
-- If danger threatens one of your vessels on the ocean, the first impression is the feeling of an abyss above and below.
-- They passed without seeing us, brushing us with their brownish fins, and we escaped by a miracle from a danger certainly greater than meeting a tiger full-face in the forest.
-- The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
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:
-- His gleaming beauty, maleness, like a young, good-humoured, smiling wolf, did not blind her to the significant, sinister stillness in his bearing, the lurking danger of his unsubdued temper.
-- He knew a certain danger in her, a convulsive madness.
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