insure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 保险， 给…保险； 保证，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：
-- Every arrangement had been made to insure safety and speed, for crossing the Andes is something more than an ordinary journey.
-- "No, but—""I am quite certain Robert is perfectly happy," interrupted Paganel, eager to insure one partisan at least.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other drivers know less than you do, but their horses are fleeter; therefore, my dear son, see if you cannot hit upon some artifice whereby you may insure that the prize shall not slip through your fingers.
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：
-- The least injudi-cious or impatient movement on the part of David might betray them, and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of the scout.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will.
-- Pencroft intended to secure the pieces of bark by means of nails, to insure the canoe being water-tight.
-- Then, besides the fat, which would insure for a long time a store of stearine and glycerine, there were still the bones, for which a use could doubtless be found, although there were neither umbrellas nor stays used at Granite House.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quilp offers me this place, which he says he can insure me,' resumed Dick after a thoughtful silence, and telling off the circumstances of his position, one by one, upon his fingers; 'Fred, who, I could have taken my affidavit, would not have heard of such a thing, backs Quilp to my astonishment, and urges me to take it also staggerer, number one!My aunt in the country stops the supplies, and writes an affectionate note to say that she has made a new will, and left me out of it staggerer, number two.
-- 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：
-- By an understanding with the presiding justice their case was to be transferred to the session of the District Court, where the preponderance of peasants on the jury would insure their conviction.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac determined to open two parallel trenches so as to insure success; he would be a learned doctor of law and a man of fashion.
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：
-- You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in order to insure the speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing namely, not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered.
-- To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
-- Queequeg believed strongly in anointing his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation; crawling under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in the unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair from the craft's bald keel.
-- Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We told him we were well enough prepared for such creatures as they were, if he would insure us from a kind of two-legged wolves, which we were told we were in most danger from, especially on the French side of the mountains.
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