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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The remaining two carried provisions and a few bales of goods, intended to secure the goodwill of the Caciques of the plain.
-- Holding his watch close to the insect, Paganel saw distinctly that the time was 10 P. M.On rejoining the Major and his three sailors, Glenarvan warned them of the approaching storm, and advised them to secure themselves in their beds of branches as firmly as possible, for there was no doubt that after the first clap of thunder the wind would become unchained, and the OMBU would be violently shaken.
-- "We had built a log hut with the DEBRIS of the BRITANNIA, and this was covered over with sail cloth, carefully tarred over, and beneath this secure shelter the rainy season passed comfortably.
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：
-- To this post a figure was tied, so swathed and muf-fled in the sheets which had been used to secure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oughtn't-oughtn't we to secure her?'
-- He tried to get up a conversation with Aglaya, and did his best to secure her attention.
-- You are marrying the woman you love in order to secure her happiness, and Aglaya sees and knows it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J.
-- I turned down the gas again, stepped out of the window on the cistern cover, very softly lowered the sash, and sat down, secure and invisible, but quivering with anger, to watch events.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dreadful thing that I was only beginning to realise was, that over all this island there was now no safe place where I could be alone and secure to rest or sleep.
-- I felt that I ought to cross the island and establish myself with the Beast People, and make myself secure in their confidence.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fish-hawk, which, secure on the topmost branches of a dead pine, had been a distant spectator of the fray, now swooped from his high and ragged perch, and soared, in wide sweeps, above his prey; while a jay, whose noisy voice had been stilled by the hoarser cries of the savages, ventured again to open his discordant throat, as though once more in undisturbed possession of his wild domains.
-- Well informed of the approach of every danger, while it is yet at a distance, the Indian generally rests secure under his knowledge of the signs of the forest, and the long and difficult paths that separate him from those he has most reason to dread.
-- His first measures were very evidently taken to secure his new captive; nor did he even bestow a second glance at the motionless forms in the center of the cavern, until he had completely cut off every hope of retreat through the private outlet he had himself used.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time I worked very hard, the rains hindering me many days, nay, sometimes weeks together; but I thought I should never be perfectly secure till this wall was finished; and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour every-thing was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She instantly wrote Sir John Middleton her acknowledgment of his kindness, and her acceptance of his proposal; and then hastened to shew both letters to her daughters, that she might be secure of their approbation before her answer were sent.
-- It was enough to secure his good opinion; for to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.
-- Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent.
-- "If we could be certain that it would be only for a while!But Mrs. Ferrars is a very headstrong proud woman, and in her first fit of anger upon hearing it, would very likely secure every thing to Robert, and the idea of that, for Edward's sake, frightens away all my inclination for hasty measures."
-- The tea things were brought in, and already had Marianne been disappointed more than once by a rap at a neighbouring door, when a loud one was suddenly heard which could not be mistaken for one at any other house, Elinor felt secure of its announcing Willoughby's approach, and Marianne, starting up, moved towards the door.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's right," he answered, making use of a pretence at examination to secure her finger.
-- So he told Carrie he would be up in a few moments, and went to secure and scan the dailies.
-- He enjoyed its risks and ventured, on a trifling hand, to bluff the company and secure a fair stake.
-- If he could secure no supper, or was hungry late in the evening, here was a place he could come.
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