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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And yet we should have every reason to dread their ferocity."
-- "Your Lordship is right," replied John Mangles; "but the fact is these sudden calms bring change of weather, and this is why I dread them.
-- This is a warning I dare not neglect, for there is nothing I dread more than storms in the Southern Seas; I have had a taste of them already.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For that had happened at this moment, which for two months had been his nightmare; which had filled his soul with dread and shame the meeting between his father and Nastasia Philipovna.
-- said the prince, with dread in his voice.
-- 'But how do you, how can you ' began the prince, gaz-ing with dread and horror at Rogojin.
-- They must have separated in terror and dread that night, though each perhaps carried away with him one great thought which was never eradicated from his mind for ever afterwards.
-- X HE prince understood at last why he shivered with dread Tevery time he thought of the three letters in his pocket, and why he had put off reading them until the evening.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dread son of Saturn,' answered Juno, 'what are you talk-ing about?
-- They do not mingle with the silver eddies of the Peneus, but flow on the top of them like oil; for the Titaresius is a branch of dread Orcus and of the river Styx.
-- 'Dread son of Saturn,' said she, 'what, pray, is the meaning of all this?
-- Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.
-- She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's regular given me a dread of a scythe, sir."
-- He edged round me into the room, peering about over his German-silver spectacles, and a sudden dread came into my mind that he might carry away something of my secret.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vague dread that had been in my mind since I had seen the inhuman face of the man at the stream grew distinc-ter as I stood there.
-- 'You who listen,' I cried, pointing now to Moreau and shouting past him to the Beast Men, ' You who listen!Do you not see these men still fear you, go in dread of you?
-- They all dread this house and me.
-- When I saw their winc-ing attitudes and the furtive dread in their bright eyes, I wondered that I had ever believed them to be men.
-- Moreau stopped, facing this creature, who cringed towards him with the memory and dread of infinite torment.
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 he performed this office, he whispered his reviving hopes in the ears of the trembling females, who, through dread of encountering the savage countenances of their captors, sel-dom raised their eyes from the ground.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dread at her own inefficiency crept upon her.
-- Again he felt the dread of the thing.
-- Not finding him, her dread lifted, and she felt more kindly toward him.
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