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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was her encouragement of the poor pedagogue all a mere sham to secure her conquest of his rival?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perceiving their danger, the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the cords of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
-- "Well, my dear Cyrus," said Gideon Spilett, "here is a very secure retreat, well hid in the depths of the rock, but it is, however, uninhabitable."
-- The inhabitants of this solid, healthy, and secure dwelling, could not but be charmed with their work.
-- Pencroft intended to secure the pieces of bark by means of nails, to insure the canoe being water-tight.
-- "Well, Mr. Spilett," said Herbert, "this is a treasure which will secure you Pencroft's gratitude forever."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- 'I've got a country-house like Robinson Crusoe,' said the dwarf, ogling the accommodations; 'a solitary, sequestered, desolate-island sort of spot, where I can be quite alone when I have business on hand, and be secure from all spies and listeners.
-- Although this might have been a very comical thing to look at from a secure gallery, as a bull-fight is found to be a comfortable spectacle by those who are not in the arena, and a house on fire is better than a play to people who don't live near it, there was something in the earnestness of Mr Quilp's manner which made his legal adviser feel that the counting-house was a little too small, and a deal too lonely, for the complete enjoyment of these humours.
-- It was not finished until evening; but, being done at last, that worthy person and the three friends adjourned in a hackney-coach to the private office of a justice, who, giving Mr Brass a warm reception and detaining him in a secure place that he might insure to himself the pleasure of seeing him on the morrow, dismissed the others with the cheering assurance that a warrant could not fail to be granted next day for the apprehension of Mr Quilp, and that a proper application and statement of all the circumstances to the secretary of state (who was fortunately in town), would no doubt procure Kit's free pardon and liberation without delay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since his visit to Maslenikoff, especially since his trip to the country, Nekhludoff felt an aversion for that sphere in which he had been living heretofore, and in which the sufferings borne by millions of people in order to secure the comforts and pleasures of a few, were so carefully concealed that the people of that sphere did not and could not see these sufferings, and consequently the cruelty and criminality of their own lives.
-- But what sense is there in imprisoning a man, who is depraved by idleness and bad example, and keeping him in secure and compulsory idleness in the society of the most depraved people?
-- "Prisons cannot secure our safety, because people are not imprisoned for life, but are released.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt I could never sleep again until my bed was secure from them.
-- My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I think that a new world is a development from this world, and that to isolate oneself with one other person, isn't to find a new world at all, but only to secure oneself in one's illusions."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I slid back the panelled sides, got in with my light, pulled them together again, and felt secure against the vigilance of Heathcliff, and every one else.
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