dread是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 畏惧, 恐惧，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, by this time she trembled under such strong emotion, and her face expressed such deep anxiety, and, above all, such dread and terror, that Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance.
-- She had drawn close to him, in her dread of the scene, and in her pity for the prisoner.
-- Saving for a mysterious dread of madame by which he was constantly haunted, his life was very new and agree-able.
-- But, in the composure of his manner he was unaltered, except that to the shrewd glance of Mr. Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately passed over him, like a cold wind.
-- It is probable that there had long been a dread lurking in his mind, that those associations would be recalled say, under certain circumstances say, on a particular occasion.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she took the Galoshes from his feet; his sleep of death was ended; and he who had been thus called back again to life arose from his dread couch in all the vigor of youth.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anna glancing down at once recognized Vronsky, and a strange feeling of pleasure and at the same time of dread of something stirred in her heart.
-- The news of Kitty's friendship with Madame Stahl and Varenka, and the reports the princess gave him of some kind of change she had noticed in Kitty, troubled the prince and aroused his habitual feeling of jealousy of everything that drew his daughter away from him, and a dread that his daughter might have got out of the reach of his influence into regions inaccessible to him.
-- And besides, hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children--the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings.
-- Having attained success and an established position in the world, he had long ago forgotten this feeling; but the habitual bent of feeling reasserted itself, and dread of his own cowardice proved even now so strong that Alexey Alexandrovitch spent a long while thinking over the question of dueling in all its aspects, and hugging the idea of a duel, though he was fully aware beforehand that he would never under any circumstances fight one.
-- There came over him a dread and doubt--doubt of everything.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said to Leora; but on them both was the cumulative dread of the fussing voices, beyond every breezy prospect was the order, "Be back at six sharp"; and they whipped up to arrive at eleven minutes to six, as Mr. Tozer was returning from the creamery, full thirty seconds later than usual.
-- He could not wait for the Norbloms to make up their minds, though they had become to him dread and eternal figures whose enmity would crush him; prodigious gods shadowing this Wheatsylvania which was the only perceptible world.
-- The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry--awfully sorry--got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening."
-- The tedium of dread was forgotten when he began to find and make precise notes of a slackening of the epidemic, which was occurring nowhere except here at Carib.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took up his hat and went out, this time without dread of meeting anyone; he had forgot-ten his dread.
-- And now he dreamt that he was walking with his father past the tavern on the way to the graveyard; he was holding his father's hand and looking with dread at the tavern.
-- Had Avdotya Romanovna been dressed like a queen, he felt that 306 Crime and Punishmenthe would not be afraid of her, but perhaps just because she was poorly dressed and that he noticed all the misery of her surroundings, his heart was filled with dread and he began to be afraid of every word he uttered, every gesture he made, which was very trying for a man who already felt diffident.
-- But at the same time he knew now and knew for certain that, although it filled her with dread and suffering, yet she had a tormenting desire to read and to read to him that he might hear it, and to read now whatever might come of it!芒聙娄 He read this in her eyes, he could see it in her intense emotion.
-- When she had gone, Sonia began to be tortured by the dread of his committing suicide, and Dounia too feared it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
-- Again, Ilisten to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, andemphasising all the dread words with a cruel relish.
-- Irecollect that I positively began to have a dread of myself, as a kindof wild boy who did bite.
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