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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me over-board, if I offered to stir.
-- It is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assis-tant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.
-- That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power, by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient, called an act of indemnity' (whereof I described the nature to him), 'they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have been careful to secure for others the contemplation of these wonders and marvels of creation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arthur Clennam suffered them to pass the corner of the street before he followed at a distance; not with any idea of encroaching a second time on Little Dorrit's privacy, but to satisfy his mind by seeing her secure in the neighbourhood to which she was accustomed.
-- 'To secure Mr Henry Gowan?'
-- 'I must get Merdle's doctor to catch and secure him, I suppose,' said Ferdinand; 'and then I must lay hold of my illustrious kinsman, and decoy him if I can drag him if I can't to the conference.'
-- She began sobbing and weeping (to secure the aunt's sympathy to herself), and said, 'Dear aunt, she has an unhappy temper; other girls at school, besides I, try hard to make it better; we all try hard.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 'haughty, uninteresting creature' was let severely alone, but Amy's talent and taste were duly complimented by the offer of the art table, and she exerted herself to prepare and secure appropriate and valuable contributions to it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might merit.
-- On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated from the water that escaped at the lip.
-- He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
-- Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is fairly captured and a corpse.
-- he cried at length, widening his legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper; and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing with his lance; "cook, you cook! sail this way, cook!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Bates backed this advice with sundry moral admonitions of his own: which, being exhausted, he and his friend Mr. Dawkins launched into a glowing description of the numerous pleasures incidental to the life they led, interspersed with a variety of hints to Oliver that the best thing he could do, would be to secure Fagin's favour without more delay, by the means which they themselves had employed to gain it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.'
-- 'It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.'
-- She endeavoured to secure Jane in her interest; but Jane, with all possible mildness, declined interfering; and Elizabeth, sometimes with real earnestness, and sometimes with playful gaiety, replied to her attacks.
-- My object has been to secure an amiable com-panion for myself, with due consideration for the advantage of all your family, and if my MANNER has been at all rep-rehensible, I here beg leave to apologise.'
-- With all these circumstances to favour an attachment, and noth-ing to prevent it, am I wrong, my dearest Jane, in indulging the hope of an event which will secure the happiness of so many?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My next work was to view the country, and seek a prop-er place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods to secure them from whatever might happen.
-- The entrance into this place I made to be, not by a door, but by a short ladder to go over the top; which ladder, when I was in, I lifted over after me; and so I was completely fenced in and fortified, as I thought, from all the world, and con-sequently slept secure in the night, which otherwise I could not have done; though, as it appeared afterwards, there was no need of all this caution from the enemies that I appre-hended danger from.
-- - I walked about the shore almost all day, to find out a place to fix my habitation, greatly concerned to secure myself from any attack in the night, either from wild beasts or men.
-- - These three days I spent in making lit-tle square chests, or boxes, which might hold about a pound, or two pounds at most, of powder; and so, putting the pow-der in, I stowed it in places as secure and remote from one another as possible.
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