menace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 威胁, 威吓; 具有危险性的人(或物) ; vt. 威胁, 威吓，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：
-- But, the suppressed manner had enough of menace in it not visible and presented, but indistinct and withheld 381to alarm Lucie into saying, as she laid her appealing hand on Madame Defarge's dress: 'You will be good to my poor husband.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would never know freedom in love, but would remain forever a guilty wife, with the menace of detection hanging over her at every instant; deceiving her husband for the sake of a shameful connection with a man living apart and away from her, whose life she could never share.
-- He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer.
-- He could only think of her as triumphant, successful in her menace of a wholly useless remorse never to be effaced.
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：
-- demanded the scout, throwing his rifle carelessly across his left arm, and keeping the forefinger of his right hand on the trigger, though he avoided all appear- ance of menace in the act.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- which was his natural reaction, and explained that he was speaking for Leora's invalid grand-aunt, that the poor old lady was very low, and if the night superintendent cared to take upon himself the murder of a blameless gentlewoman-- When Leora came to the telephone he said quickly, and soberly now, feeling as though he had come from the menace of thronging strangers into the security of her presence: "Leora?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his disengaged handhe made a menace of striking me, and then looked at me from headto foot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she cried, with something between a furious menace and an effort at a defiant dance.
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：
-- A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
-- The great, rambling mass of a place seemed evil to her, just a menace over her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was in reference to another menace of attention from his recovered friend.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
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