courageous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 勇敢的， 无畏的，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 girl was about sixteen years of age; her tired pretty face, and sorrowful eyes, and resigned but courageous look, as well as her neat though poor attire, made a favorable impression.
-- "No, no," said the courageous lad; "I can still walk; don't stop."
-- You understand him, my friends, he means a courageous man."
-- How courageous and devoted they are."
-- shouted Robert, stretching out his hands toward the courageous Patagonian.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his hon-est and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the 368 A tale of two citiespendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room dis-tortedly reflect a shade of horror.
-- When her husband was brought in, she turned a look upon him, so sustaining, so encouraging, so full of admir-ing love and pitying tenderness, yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the healthy blood into his face, bright-ened his glance, and animated his heart.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very much indeed of what we call moral education, he said, is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform several were found missing; among others the courageous Frenchman, whose devotion had just saved them.
-- As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin; and Passepartout, whose duty it was to carry him his meals, courageous as he was, took the greatest precautions.
-- Passepartout explained to her how it was that the honest and courageous Fogg was arrested as a robber.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the coach with the energy of that courageous land.
-- It is true that some of the delighted congregation thought that this referred to Mayor Pugh, and others applied it to F. X. Jordan, but wise citizens saw that it was a courageous attack on that monster of treacherous lewdness, Dr. Arrowsmith.
-- Inchcape Jones was courageous enough, but he could not cajole people.
-- But Martin was at once a scholar who made osmotic pressure determinations almost interesting, a taut swift man whom she could fancy running or making love, and a lonely youngster who naively believed that here in her soft security she was still the girl who had sat with him by the lagoon, still the courageous woman who had come to him in a drunken room at Blackwater.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
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：
-- Astonishment soon changed to admiration, and they passed on to other and less courageous victims, openly ex-pressing their satisfaction at the firmness with which the white warrior sang his death song.
-- Once more he tried the throng, as if seeking safety in its blindness, and then several mo-ments succeeded, during which Duncan believed the active and courageous young stranger was lost.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think you're a courageous little lady, Mrs.
-- Scarlett, Scarlett!I hoped for more courageous conductfrom you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, in spite of being thus forearmed, he entered his own house with anything but a courageous air; and appeared before the object of his misgivings, like a dog who was conscious of coming direct from the pantry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The courageous Icelander then carried me in his powerful arms, far out of the reach of the waves, and laid me down upon a burning expanse of sand, where I found myself some time afterwards in the company of my uncle, the Professor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'More courageous than ninety men in a hundred, sir, let me tell you.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
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