secure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (from， against) 安全的， 放心的v. 得到； 防护，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say he has; and though it may cut him off from some advantages, it will secure him many others.'
-- It would be a charming introduction for you, who have lived so secluded a life; and I could immedi-ately secure you some of the best society in the place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Love her best!Love her tenderly!How shall I get you to see how advantageous it will be to you to secure her at once?"
-- "I don't wish to secure her in any new way."
-- But before I leave you I must have a paper signed ""Pay me the money, and we'll go straight to her parlour, and make any arrangement you please to secure my compliance with your wishes.
-- "Oh, no, it is merely my humour to secure things.
-- Pennyways now felt himself to be in something of a difficulty, for should Bathsheba and Troy become reconciled it would be necessary to regain her good opinion if he would secure the patronage of her husband.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- "Oh!well, yes, their father, the father, a father," replied the Vicomtesse, "a kind father who gave them each five or six hundred thousand francs, it is said, to secure their happiness by marrying them well; while he only kept eight or ten thousand livres a year for himself, thinking that his daughters would always be his daughters, thinking that in them he would live his life twice over again, that in their houses he should find two homes, where he would be loved and looked up to, and made much of.
-- His plain good sense led him to accept the position of President of the Section, so as to secure for his business the protection of those in power at that dangerous epoch.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
-- He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
-- In this mood of mind I betook myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so worthy of my con-sideration.
-- Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold, I had covered myself with some clothes, but these were in-sufficient to secure me from the dews of night.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She always felt secure when Ellenwas by her, for there was nothing so bad that Ellen could not better it, simply by being there.
-- It's bad enough for Ashley to be marrying the Hamilton child, but for Honey to be marrying that pale-lookingCharles Hamilton " "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her ownpopularity.
-- Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father's roof with the protection of her mother'slove wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Somehow, I was not best pleased with Joe's being so mightily secure of me.
-- It appeared to me that I could do no better than secure him some quiet lodging hard by, of which he might take possession when Herbert returned: whom I expected in two or three days.
-- There being to my knowledge a respectable lodging-house in Essex Street, the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost within hail of my windows, I first of all repaired to that house, and was so fortunate as to secure the second floor for my uncle, Mr. Provis.
-- I think it would hardly serve her to establish her parentage for the information of her husband, and to drag her back to disgrace, after an escape of twenty years, pretty secure to last for life.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden, when my little nurse, believing she had put me in a secure place (which I often entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own thoughts,) and having left my box at home, to avoid the trouble of carrying it, went to another part of the garden with her governess and some ladies of her acquaintance.
-- It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains.
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