cautious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (of) 小心的， 谨慎的，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place was already lit up and agreeably warm, and I decided to remain where I was, keeping a cautious eye on the two or three sets of shopmen and customers who were meandering through the place, until closing time came.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, after weeks and weeks of cautious driving of scattered ele-phants across the hills, the forty or fifty wild monsters were driven into the last stockade, and the big drop gate, made of tree trunks lashed together, jarred down behind them, Kala Nag, at the word of command, would go into that flar-ing, trumpeting pandemonium (generally at night, when the flicker of the torches made it difficult to judge distanc-es), and, picking out the biggest and wildest tusker of the mob, would hammer him and hustle him into quiet while the men on the backs of the other elephants roped and tied the smaller ones.
-- What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the val-ley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when no-body knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the ele-phants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
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：
-- He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
-- His companions were not long in comprehending his wishes, and laying aside their firearms, they parted, taking opposite sides of the path, and burying themselves in the thicket, with such cautious movements, that their steps were inaudible.
-- Though their dialogue was maintained in low and cautious sounds, but little above a whisper, Heyward, who now ap-proached, could easily distinguish the earnest tones of the younger warrior from the more deliberate speeches of his seniors.
-- In this manner they proceeded, for many rods, in a silence that was only interrupted by the rippling of the water, as its eddies played around them, or the low dash made by their own cautious footsteps.
-- 'Treaty or no treaty, I know full well that your two com-panions are brave and cautious warriors!have they heard or seen anything of our enemies!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other that was he who took the money had rather a careful and cautious look, which was perhaps inseparable from his occupation also.
-- As their discourse appeared to relate to matters in which they were warmly interested, however, she deemed it the best time for escaping unobserved; and crept away with slow and cautious steps, keeping in the shadow of the hedges, or forcing a path through them or the dry ditches, until she could emerge upon the road at a point beyond their range of vision.
-- CHAPTER 62A faint light, twinkling from the window of the counting-house on Quilp's wharf, and looking inflamed and red through the night-fog, as though it suffered from it like an eye, forewarned Mr Sampson Brass, as he approached the wooden cabin with a cautious step, that the excellent proprietor, his esteemed client, was inside, and probably waiting with his accustomed patience and sweetness of temper the fulfilment of the appointment which now brought Mr Brass within his fair domain.
-- Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door.
-- He manifested, besides, a strong desire to assault the jury; and being restrained and conducted out of court, darkened its only window by standing on his head upon the sill, until he was dexterously tilted upon his feet again by a cautious beadle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again there was a cautious pause.
-- "I was going to ask her, in any case, to go away with me at Christmas," he said, in a very small, cautious voice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 4 hen Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who Whad been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him.
-- 'I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time, however, and the satisfaction I had that I was in no danger of being discovered by these people, began to wear off my uneasiness about them; and I began to live just in the same composed manner as before, only with this difference, that I used more caution, and kept my eyes more about me than I did before, lest I should happen to be seen by any of them; and particularly, I was more cautious of firing my gun, lest any of them, being on the island, should happen to hear it.
-- The present question abundantly confirms me in the jus-tice of this reasoning; for had I not been made cautious by this secret admonition, come it from whence it will, I had been done inevitably, and in a far worse condition than be-fore, as you will see presently.
-- However, seeing him still cautious of shedding blood, I told him they should go them-selves, and manage as they found convenient.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," returned Elinor, cautious of giving her real opinion of Edward's mother, and not very desirous of satisfying what seemed impertinent curiosity "I know nothing of her."
-- CHAPTER 24In a firm, though cautious tone, Elinor thus began.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went for it, cautious and slow.
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