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：
-- While she was shrink-ing within herself, in dread of having her ears wounded by some proposal still more shocking than the last, the voice of Magua answered, in its tones of deepest malignancy: 'When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
-- This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.
-- They who heard it listened with a curdling horror at the heart, little inferior to that dread which may be expected to attend the blasts of the final summons.
-- Of them all, the straggler who brought up the rear appeared alone to betray his real thoughts, without fear of observation or dread of conse-quences.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
-- I felt that she was possessed by some shapeless dread which robbed her of all self-control.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I trust that there are no natives on this island; I dread them more than anything else.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could form no comprehension of his character, unless he were one of those miserable wretches who, having made gain the sole end and object of their lives and having succeeded in amassing great riches, are constantly tortured by the dread of poverty, and beset by fears of loss and ruin.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
-- A group of idle urchins had taken possession of the door-steps; some were plying the knocker and listening with delighted dread to the hollow sounds it spread through the dismantled house; others were clustered about the keyhole, watching half in jest and half in earnest for 'the ghost,' which an hour's gloom, added to the mystery that hung about the late inhabitants, had already raised.
-- The farm-yard passed, then came the little inn; the humbler beer-shop; and the village tradesman's; then the lawyer's and the parson's, at whose dread names the beer-shop trembled; the church then peeped out modestly from a clump of trees; then there were a few more cottages; then the cage, and pound, and not unfrequently, on a bank by the way-side, a deep old dusty well.
-- This was a question more difficult of solution; but as knaves generally overreach themselves by imputing their own designs to others, the idea immediately presented itself that some circumstances of irritation between Quilp and the old man, arising out of their secret transactions and not unconnected perhaps with his sudden disappearance, now rendered the former desirous of revenging himself upon him by seeking to entrap the sole object of his love and anxiety into a connexion of which he knew he had a dread and hatred.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This condition of constant dread and struggle was very burdensome to her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me.
-- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was alone for several hours, sometimes thinking of the natives but without any dread of them, for the imperturbable confidence of the Captain was catching sometimes forgetting them to admire the splendours of the night in the tropics.
-- A mortal dread hung over me, and I vainly tried to regain my accustomed coolness.
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：
-- What a dread he had of mankind, of other people!It amounted almost to horror, to a sort of dream terror his horror of being observed by some other people.
-- It was as if he belonged naturally to dread and catastrophe, as if he were himself again.
-- He never drove the dread out of its lair within him.
-- Only, in his vague way, the dread was his wife, the destroyer, and it was the pain, the destruction, a darkness which was one and both.
-- But now his pity, with his life, was wearing thin, and the dread almost amounting to horror, was rising into being.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll walk in the yard till daylight, and then I'll be off; and you need not dread a repetition of my intrusion.
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