offensive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 冒犯的， 攻击的n. 攻势， 进攻，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These three young gentlemen, Mr. Stryver, exuding pa-tronage of the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as pupils to Lucie's husband: delicate-ly saying 'Halloa!here are three lumps of bread-andcheese towards your matrimonial picnic, Darnay!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With what he had in his soul, he felt sore and uncomfortable in the restaurant, in the midst of private rooms where men were dining with ladies, in all this fuss and bustle; the surroundings of bronzes, looking glasses, gas, and waiters--all of it was offensive to him.
-- Low as was his opinion of Golenishtchev's capacity for understanding art, trifling as was the true remark upon the fidelity of the expression of Pilate as an official, and offensive as might have seemed the utterance of so unimportant an observation while nothing was said of more serious points, Mihailov was in an ecstasy of delight at this observation.
-- Just as Levin had disliked all the trivial preparations for his wedding, as derogatory to the grandeur of the event, now he felt still more offensive the preparations for the approaching birth, the date of which they reckoned, it seemed, on their fingers.
-- "Come, tell me, honor bright, has there been...not in Kitty, but in that gentleman's behavior, a tone which might be unpleasant-- not unpleasant, but horrible, offensive to a husband?"
-- Going back from the well-remembered, offensive words of the quarrel to what had been the ground of it, she arrived at last at its origin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the man could reply, a fresh agitation arose; hurrahs and excited shouts were heard; the staffs of the banners began to be used as offensive weapons; and fists flew about in every direction.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At clinic luncheons he met surgeons from London, New York, Boston; men with limousines and social positions and the offensive briskness of the man who has numerous engagements, or the yet more offensive quietness of the person who is amused by his inferiors; master technicians, readers of papers at medical congresses, executives and controllers, unafraid to operate before a hundred peering doctors, or to give well-bred and exceedingly final orders to subordinates; captain- generals of medicine, never doubting themselves, great priests and healers; men mature and wise and careful and blandly cordial.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What's the most offensive is not their lying one can always forgive ly-ing lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying芒聙娄.
-- He began by stopping short in the doorway, staring about him with offensive and undisguised astonishment, as though asking himself what sort of place he had come to.
-- 'Avdotya Romanovna,' Luzhin declared huffily, 'your words are of too much consequence to me; I will say more, they are offensive in view of the position I have the hon-our to occupy in relation to you.
-- To say nothing of your strange and offensive setting me on a level with an- impertinent boy, you admit the possibility of breaking your promise to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear,' said Mr.Micawber, with some heat, 'it may be better for me to statedistinctly, at once, that if I were to develop my views to thatassembled group, they would possibly be found of an offensive 713nature; my impression being that your family are, in the aggregate,impertinent Snobs; and, in detail, unmitigated Ruffians.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a bright air and manner about her now, by which she seemed to imply that the desirability of her existence could not be questioned; and this rather saucy assumption failed in being offensive because a beholder felt it to be, upon the whole, true.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants ap-pointed for that purpose.
-- They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me 144 Gulliver's Travelsat full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much dis-gusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins; which I do not mention, or intend, to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I conceive that my sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and that those illustri-ous persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in England.
-- His honour had further observed, 'that a female Yahoo would often stand behind a bank or a bush, to gaze on the young males passing by, and then appear, and hide, using many antic gestures and grimaces, at which time it was ob-served that she had a most offensive smell; and when any of the males advanced, would slowly retire, looking often back, 336 Gulliver's Travelsand with a counterfeit show of fear, run off into some con-venient place, where she knew the male would follow her.
-- He took notice of a general tradition, 'that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many 346 Gulliver's Travelsages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniam-shy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agil-ity of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with a noise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curious, suspicious, false ami-ability with which the miners' wives met her overtures; the curiously offensive tinge of Oh dear me!I AM somebody now, with Lady Chatterley talking to me!But she needn't think I'm not as good as her for all that! which she always heard twanging in the women's half-fawning voices, was impossible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked about him for an offensive weapon, caught up the snuffers, and, before applying them to the cabbage-headed candle, lunged at the sleeper as though he would have run him through the body.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Intolerably striding along the deck, the mate commanded him to get a broom and sweep down the planks, and also a shovel, and remove some offensive matters consequent upon allowing a pig to run at large.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as a may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
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