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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my dread of the end of the vacation and theircoming back, I could not read a boy's name, without inquiring inwhat tone and with what emphasis he would read, 'Take care ofhim.
-- I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidlyattracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, andwhether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Weston, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread of its doing them both harm.'
-- The dread of such a failure after all became the prominent uneasiness; and when Harriet appeared, and in very good spirits, and without having any such reason to give for her long absence, she felt a satisfaction which settled her with her own mind, and convinced her, that let Mr. Knightley think or say what he would, she had done nothing which woman's friendship and woman's feelings would not justify.
-- I have no reason to think ill of her not the least except that such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.'
-- She had no doubt as to his being less in love but neither his agitated spirits, nor his hurrying away, seemed like a perfect cure; and she was rather inclined to think it implied a dread of her returning power, and a discreet resolution of not trust-ing himself with her long.
-- Chapter XIITill now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness depend-ed on being first with Mr. Knightley, first in interest and affection. Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important it had been. Long, very long, she felt she had been first; for, having no female connexions of his own, there had been only Isabella whose claims could be compared with hers, and she had always known exactly how far he loved and esteemed Isabella.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bailiff who showed this nervous dread of loving his neighbour as himself, went up the hill, and Oak walked on to the village, still astonished at the reencounter with Bathsheba, glad of his nearness to her, and perplexed at the rapidity with which the unpractised girl of Norcombe had developed into the supervising and cool woman here.
-- With almost a morbid dread of being thought a gushing girl, this guileless woman too well concealed from the world under a manner of carelessness the warm depths of her strong emotions.
-- I dread going yet I dread the risk of wounding him by staying away."
-- This visible dread of him seemed to irritate Troy, and he seized her arm and pulled it sharply.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dread of losing her happiness filled those days with a fever of joy unknown before, but the end was only so much the nearer.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I postponed this attempt for some months longer, for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I should fail.
-- Man!You may hate, but beware!Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.
-- More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse.
-- But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.
-- These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the disappointment of the day and the dread of the morrow departed from her, leaving afeeling of hope.
-- Suspense grew and the beginnings of dread slowly crawled over the town.
-- Sheridan was a name to bring dread toSouthern hearts.
-- Scarlett had seen enough typhoid in the Atlanta hospital to know what a week meant in that dread disease.
-- On the morning of the first of September, Scarlett awoke with a suffocating sense of dread upon her, a dread shehad taken to her pillow the night before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,--which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,--it is the key to many reservations.
-- A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
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