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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now mark this, prince there is nothing so offensive to a man of our time and race than to be told that he is wanting in originality, that he is weak in character, has no particular talent, and is, in short, an ordinary person.
-- If the words had been less offensive he might have forgiven them, so pleased was he to see Lizabetha Prokofievna worried and anxious about the prince's illness.
-- Nothing would be easier than to prove the date of your birth from well-known facts; we can only look on Mr. Keller's version as a work of imagination, and one, more- over, extremely offensive both to you and your mother.
-- he cried, with his usual pleasant, some-times audacious, but never offensive familiarity, which I liked in reality, but for which I also detested him.
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：
-- Heyward himself was posted at hand, so near that he might communicate with his com-panions without raising his voice to a dangerous elevation; while David, in imitation of the woodsmen, bestowed his person in such a manner among the fissures of the rocks, that his ungainly limbs were no longer offensive to the eye.
-- In a moment every frightful or offensive mark was obliterated, and the youth appeared again in the lineaments with which he had been gifted by nature.
-- 'If a Mingo has whispered that much in the ear of the Del-aware, he has only shown that he is a singing-bird,' said the scout, who now believed that it was time to vindicate him-self from such offensive charges, and who spoke as the man he addressed, modifying his Indian figures, however, with his own peculiar notions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small servant flew to the coal-cellar; Miss Sally dived into her own bed-room; Mr Brass, who was not remarkable for personal courage, ran into the next street, and finding that nobody followed him, armed with a poker or other offensive weapon, put his hands in his pockets, walked very slowly all at once, and whistled.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The one hated it, because she had experienced all the horror of it; the other, because not having experienced it, she looked upon it as something strange and at the same time disgusting and offensive to human dignity.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, in the explanation of them, which is due to myself, I am under the necessity of relating feelings which may be offensive to yours, I can only say that I am sorry.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her easy gait and idle manner attracted attention of an offensive but common sort.
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