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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I postponed this attempt for some months longer, for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I should fail.
-- Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which 200 FrankensteinI so much dreaded to behold.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man roared like abull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
-- Now, the Wilkes " "Not meaning to change the subject, Ma'm," broke in Gerald hurriedly, for he had noticed Carreen's bewilderedlook and the avid curiosity on Suellen's face and feared lest they might ask Ellen embarrassing questions which wouldreveal how inadequate a chaperon he was.
-- "My Dear wife: You write me saying you are alarmed lest I be concealing my real thoughts from you and you askme what is occupying my mind these days " "Mother of God!"
-- He was afraid to go to bed at night, afraid of the dark, afraid to sleep lest theYankees should come and get him, and the sound of his soft nervous whimpering in the night grated unendurably onher nerves.
-- Uncle Henry fidgeted, coughed and did not look at her, lest he catch sight of a tear that would upsethim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some days, I even kept close at home, and looked out at the kitchen door with the greatest caution and trepidation before going on an errand, lest the officers of the County Jail should pounce upon me.
-- But she shook her head to that extent when she was shown it, that we were terrified lest in her weak and shattered state she should dislocate her neck.
-- Let me start from my bed as I would, with the terror fresh upon me that he was discovered; let me sit listening, as I would with dread, for Herbert's returning step at night, lest it should be fleeter than ordinary, and winged with evil news,--for all that, and much more to like purpose, the round of things went on.
-- How Wemmick received the announcement I am unable to say; for I was afraid to look at him just then, lest Mr. Jaggers's sharpness should detect that there had been some communication unknown to him between us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think,' answered the bean, 'that as we have so fortu-nately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us 31here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.'
-- 'Then tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it was very unruly, and plagued me sadly on the road'; but the truth was, she was very much afraid lest Falada should some day or other speak, and tell all she had done to the princess.
-- But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.
-- She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, 109I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particu-larly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
-- This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in ques-tion.
-- This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, where-with other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill. Howev-er, it was necessary to mention this matter, lest the world should think it impossible that I could find sustenance for three years in such a country, and among such inhabitants.
-- But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet Mrs. Pegler was so flurried lest the object of her admiration should return by chance, or anybody else should come, that her cheerfulness was ended for that night.
-- If he was footsore and couldn't walk, I sent him, in the letter he got, the money to ride, lest he should have none of his own to spare.'
-- It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that they should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace, of his father's being at hand and of the purpose for which they had come.
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：
-- She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman.
-- No answer!She was terrified lest he had had a stroke.
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