startle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 惊吓， 使吃惊，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：
-- 'And then their way of preaching; they have a skilful manner of doing it!And they know how to startle one, too.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.
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：
-- 'You might not startle a wolf, or turn the Royal Ameri-cans from a discharge; but I have seen the time when you had a better favored look; your streaked countenances are not ill-judged of by the squaws, but young women of white blood give the preference to their own color.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this may startle you--oh, you had a lot of crank notions when you were in school, but you aren't the only one that does some thinking for himself!--sometimes I believe it'd be better for the general health situation if there weren't any public health departments at all, because they get a lot of people into the habit of going to free clinics instead of to private physicians, and cut down the earnings of the doctors and reduce their number, so there are less of us to keep a watchful eye on sickness.
-- He estimated that according to Pickerbaugh's figures on bad teeth, careless motoring, tuberculosis, and seven other afflictions alone, every person in the city had a one hundred and eighty per cent chance of dying before the age of sixteen and he could not startle with much alarm when Pickerbaugh shouted, "Do you realize that the number of people who died from yaws in Pickens County, Mississippi, last year alone, was twenty-nine and that they might all have been saved, yes, sir, SAVED, by a daily cold shower?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, now, the chambers were cold and gloomy, and when she left her own little room to while away the tedious hours, and sat in one of them, she was still and motionless as their inanimate occupants, and had no heart to startle the echoes hoarse from their long silence with her voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a relief to get out of the room where the night had been so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me from my uneasy bed.
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：
-- "Did I startle you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too gradually to startle those who saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by absence, it was very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face.
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