onset是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 进攻; 开始, 发作，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take hold, then, of the whip and reins while I stand upon the car to fight, or else do you wait this man's onset while I look after the horses.'
-- The two Ajaxes, Ulysses and Diomed, cheered the Dan-aans on, fearless of the fury and onset of the Trojans.
-- See how they perish and come to a bad end before the onset of but a single man.
-- These stood before the gates like two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide-spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain even so did these two men await the onset of great Asius confidently and without flinching.
-- Thereon round the two Ajaxes there gathered strong bands of men, of whom not even Mars nor Minerva, marshaller of hosts could make light if they went among them, for they were the picked men of all those who were now awaiting the onset of Hector and the Trojans.
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：
-- As the inner passages to the two caves were so close to each other, Duncan, believing that escape was no longer possible, passed David and the sisters, to place himself be-tween the latter and the first onset of the terrible meeting.
-- The fifth and only- Huron disengaged at the first onset had paused a moment, and then seeing that all around him were employed in the dead-ly strife, he had sought, with hellish vengeance, to complete the baffled work of revenge.
-- It would seem that, while his own surprise had been anticipated, and had consequently failed, the enemy, in their turn, having been deceived in its object and in his numbers, had left too small a force to resist the impetuous onset of the young Mohi-can.
-- The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirl-wind.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said she, fluttering under the onset of a crowd of romantic possibilities.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now,when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Preserving an interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboam's boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it blew very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times by the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed some way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper bearings again.
-- Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he told them he would take the whale head-and-head, that is, pull straight up to his forehead, a not uncommon thing; for when within a certain limit, such a course excludes the coming onset from the whale's sidelong vision.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, Noah writhed and twisted his body into an extensive variety of eel-like positions; thereby giving Mr. Bumble to understand that, from the violent and sanguinary onset of Oliver Twist, he had sustained severe internal injury and damage, from which he was at that moment suffering the acutest torture.
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