lest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. 惟恐， 免得，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Cratchit made the 62 Sons and Loversgravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dust-ed the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So close was her hold upon his arm, that he feared to de-tach himself lest he should hurt her; therefore he called out loudly for assistance without moving.
-- For some minutes after he had emerged into the outer presence of Saint Antoine, the husband and wife remained exactly as he had left them, lest he should come back.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a state he was in!He was so uneasy lest he should lose something of his splendor, that he was quite bewildered amidst the glare and brightness; when suddenly both folding-doors opened and a troop of children rushed in as if they would upset the Tree.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this sense was so painful at first, the apprehension lest this helpless creature should suffer was so intense, that it prevented him from noticing the strange thrill of senseless joy and even pride that he had felt when the baby sneezed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, enchanted with his discovery, resolved to say nothing to his master, lest he should be justly offended at this mistrust on the part of his adversaries.
-- Fix was not without his fears lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant, whom he had so badly treated, in this direction; in which case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the detective must have ensued.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet he was too proud to introduce her about, lest he seem to be begging his friends to dance with her.
-- There were days when, for all the joy of it, he dreaded lest Tubbs stride in and bellow, "What are you doing here?
-- He worried lest there might, somehow, have been no living staphylococci in the pus which he had used for seeding the broth-- none there to die.
-- He was at once worried lest there had been an accident, and furious that she should not have been here at the great hour.
-- He was like a fabulous painter, so contemptuous of popular taste that after a lifetime of creation he should destroy everything he has done, lest it be marred and mocked by the dull eyes of the crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After dinner, when we were sitting by the fire, and I wasmeditating an escape to Peggotty without having the hardihood to 51slip away, lest it should offend the master of the house, a coachdrove up to the garden-gate, and he went out to receive the visitor.
-- The way inwhich I listened to all the incidents of the house that madethemselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and 62shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on thestairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, whichseemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude anddisgrace- the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, whenI would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the familywere not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet tocome- the depressed dreams and nightmares I had- the return ofday, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in thechurchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room,being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they shouldknow I was a prisoner- the strange sensation of never hearingmyself speak- the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness,which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it- thesetting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its comingdown faster and faster between me and the church, until it andgathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, andremorseall this appears to have gone round and round for yearsinstead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on myremembrance.
-- Some of them certainly did dance about me like wildIndians, and the greater part could not resist the temptation of 85pretending that I was a dog, and patting and smoothing me, lest Ishould bite, and saying, 'Lie down, sir!'
-- Half theestablishment was writhing and crying, before the day's workbegan; and how much of it had writhed and cried before the day'swork was over, I am really afraid to recollect, lest I should seem toexaggerate.
-- I had perception enough to know that mymother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me,or be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by hermanner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she wasnot only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of myoffending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston, with triumph of a different sort, was con-fessing that he had known it to be snowing some time, but had not said a word, lest it should make Mr. Woodhouse uncomfortable, and be an excuse for his hurrying away.
-- I honestly said as much to Mr. E. when he was speaking of my future home, and expressing his fears lest the retirement of it should be disagreeable; and the inferiority of the house too knowing what I had been accustomed to of course he was not whol-ly without apprehension.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He nourished it fearfully, and almost shunned the contemplation of it in earnest, lest facts should reveal the wildness of the dream.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was five o'clock, and Eugene was hungry; he was afraid lest he should not be in time for dinner, a misgiving 莽卢卢39 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 which made him feel that it was pleasant to be borne so quickly across Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been the author of unalter-able evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.
-- Even as she spoke I drew near to her, as if in terror, lest at that very moment the destroyer had been near to rob me of her.
-- When night came on and brought sleep with it, I was in the greatest fear lest my fire should be extinguished.
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