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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition to the dread that, having led up to so much mischief, it would be now more likely than ever to alienate Joe from me if he believed it, I had a further restraining dread that he would not believe it, but would assort it with the fabulous dogs and veal-cutlets as a monstrous invention.
-- Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction.
-- "They dread him so much?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not ex- plain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along.
-- She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.
-- Then in the dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own efflu-via, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very 205narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- O!Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause.
-- When they turned into a narrow street, Stephen glanced at his window with a dread that always haunted his desolate home; but it was open, as he had left it, and no one was there.
-- The hand soon stopped in the midst of them; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency, went out; and even Mrs. Gradgrind, emerged from the shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain, took upon her the dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs.
-- All this, and more, in his hurry, and in hers, in the whirl of her own gratified malice, in the dread of being discovered, in the rapidly increasing noise of heavy rain among the leaves, and a thunderstorm rolling up Mrs.
-- A secret sense of having failed and been ridiculous a dread of what other fellows who went in for similar sorts of things, would say at his expense if they knew it so oppressed him, that what was about the very best passage in his life was the one of all others he would not have owned to on any account, and the only one that made him ashamed of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Never shall my uncle be made aware of the dread secret.
-- Then another dread doubt fell upon my soul.
-- A dread fell upon my soul that it might be my own words brought back to me by a distant echo.
-- Is, then, my dream about to come true--a dread and terrible reality?
-- I stood mute, almost paralyzed with wonder and awe before this dread apparition of another age.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford had a queer dread of deliver-ing himself into the hands of a stranger, but this Mrs Bolton had once nursed him through scarlet fever, and he knew her.
-- But it was obvious he had a secret dread of her.
-- He went in a certain half-subservient dread of her, and was ex-tremely nice to her.
-- She was his wife, a higher being, and he worshipped her with a queer, craven idolatry, like a savage, a worship based on enormous fear, and even hate of the power of the idol, the dread idol.
-- Sharp, wicked electric lights at Stacks Gate!An undefinable quick of evil in them!And all the unease, the ever-shifting dread of the industrial night in the Midlands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
-- As if there were a secret understanding between herself and Clennam of the most thrilling nature; as if the first of a train of post-chaises and four, extending all the way to Scotland, were at that moment round the corner; and as if she couldn't (and wouldn't) have walked into the Parish Church with him, under the shade of the family umbrella, with the Patriarchal blessing on her head, and the perfect concurrence of all mankind; Flora comforted her soul with agonies of mysterious signalling, expressing dread of discovery.
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