frighten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 使惊恐，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：
-- He stamped his foot irritably, but she only laughed, and answered: 'Are you trying to frighten me?
-- 'I think she often does it merely to frighten me.
-- 'They are afraid of you, and tried to frighten me, too.
-- 'Ei-ther they frighten one out of one's wits, or else ' But Prince S. was laughing now, too, so was Evgenie Pav-lovitch, so was Colia, and so was the prince himself, who caught the infection as he looked round radiantly upon the others.
-- said the general, beside himself with rage and excitement; 'speak under the penalty of a father's curse 'Oh, father's curse be hanged you don't frighten me that way!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I I have to kill for two, these days.'
-- 'Now,' said the big man (he was an Englishman who had just moved into the bungalow), 'don't frighten him, and we'll see what he'll do.'
-- It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mon-goose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity.
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：
-- Sir, he had better raise this siege, to go and sit down before Edward if he wishes to frighten his enemy with words.'
-- Can the cunning stranger frighten him away?'
-- 'Have I dreamed of so many snows that my people were scattered like floating sands of Yengeese, more plenty than the leaves on the trees!The arrow of Ta-menund would not frighten the fawn; his arm is withered like the branch of a dead oak; the snail would be swifter in the race; yet is Uncas before him as they went to battle against the pale faces!Uncas, the panther of his tribe, the eldest son of the Lenape, the wisest Sagamore of the Mohi-cans!Tell me, ye Delawares, has Tamenund been a sleeper for a hundred winters?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon com-ets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hunters, armed with sticks, could have killed them easily, but they were not guilty of such useless massacre, as it was important not to frighten the seals, who were lying on the sand several cable lengths off.
-- As to birds, some scarecrows, due to Pencroft's ingenious brain, were enough to frighten them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was plain, thought the dwarf, that he had come there, on behalf of his friend, to cajole or frighten the old man out of some small fraction of that wealth of which they supposed him to have an abundance.
-- The road lies, too, through miles and miles, all lighted up by fires like ours a strange black road, and one that would frighten you by night.'
-- This isn't the first time; and if ever you worry or frighten her again, you'll oblige me (though I should be very sorry to do it, on account of your size) to beat you.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after the jurymen came the usher, who, walking sidewise to the middle of the room, shouted, as if he meant to frighten those present: "The court is coming!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For that matter, anyone who was a comrade of the captain's was enough to frighten them to death.
-- No, I should be surprised if he did!The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
-- Ned Land did not speak, but he opened his jaws wide enough to frighten a shark.
-- "The sea is bad, the wind violent, but twenty miles in that light boat of the Nautilus does not frighten me.
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：
-- "It does frighten one," said Ursula, and again there was a pause.
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