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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Glenarvan, his only fear was lest Ayrton should return alone.
-- This courageous woman made heroic efforts to restrain herself, lest she should disturb Glenarvan's coolness.
-- The fugitives looked without understanding, fearing lest the charm that enchained Kai-Koumou's tribe should be broken.
-- And as they thought of the dreadful disappointment that awaited them, they trembled lest this new trial should crush them completely.
-- He dreaded lest he should expose the whole Geographical Society in his person to the jests of caricaturists and low newspapers, by their secretary coming back tattooed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fear lest I should be swayed too much by my own ob-vious interest in the matter, and that is why I bring the case before you and ask for your advice.'
-- I was standing watching his pursuit with a mixture of admiration for his extraordinary activity and fear lest he should lose his footing in the treacherous mire, when I heard the sound of steps, and turning round found a woman near me upon the path.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Listen to me, Aglaya,' said the prince, 'I do believe you are nervous lest I shall make a fool of myself tomorrow at your party?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go back now, lest she should find out.
-- Let me then advise my mother and she must herself know that it will be better to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother's thoughts she plainly saw were bent the same way, and she determined not to venture near her, lest she might hear too much.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, lest my good resolutions should continue, my companion, who had enticed me away, comes to me; 'Well, Bob,' says he, clapping me upon the shoulder, 'how do you do after it?
-- It grew now late, and the to-bacco had, as I said, dozed my head so much that I inclined to sleep; so I left my lamp burning in the cave, lest I should want anything in the night, and went to bed.
-- I was so anxious to see it kept entire, lest the goats should break through, that I never left off till, with infinite labour, I had stuck the outside of the hedge so full of small stakes, and so near to one an-other, that it was rather a pale than a hedge, and there was scarce room to put a hand through between them; which af-terwards, when those stakes grew, as they all did in the next rainy season, made the enclosure strong like a wall, indeed stronger than any wall.
-- The first thing I proposed to myself was, to throw down my enclosures, and turn all my tame cattle wild into the woods, lest the enemy should find them, and then frequent the island in prospect of the same or the like booty: then the simple thing of digging up my two corn-fields, lest they should find such a grain there, and still be prompted to frequent the island: then to demol-ish my bower and tent, that they might not see any vestiges of habitation, and be prompted to look farther, in order to find out the persons inhabiting.
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She does not know how to hold her tongue, as you must perceive, and I am sure I was in the greatest fright in the world t'other day, when Edward's name was mentioned by Sir John, lest she should out with it all.
-- Elinor thought it wisest to make no answer to this, lest they might provoke each other to an unsuitable increase of ease and unreserve; and was even partly determined never to mention the subject again.
-- She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lest this order of individual should permanently pass, let me put down some of the most striking characteristics of his most successful manner and method.
-- She felt the eyes of the other help upon her, and troubled lest she was not working fast enough.
-- At times she wished that she had never gone into the affair; at others, she trembled lest she should be paralysed with fear and stand white and gasping, not knowing what to say and spoiling the entire performance.
-- He was greatly agitated lest at the first station across the border or at the depot in New York there should be waiting for him an officer of the law.
-- He saw one man taken up for it and now troubled lest he should be arrested.
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