afraid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 害怕的， 恐惧的； 犯愁的， 不乐意的，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：
-- He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed, that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you.
-- 'I am afraid I have not.
-- I'm not afraid to be the first, nor afraid for them to see it.
-- 'Don't you be afraid of that,' returned the woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- 'I am afraid of it,' she answered, shuddering.
-- You see how composed he has become, and you can-not be afraid to leave him with me now.
-- 'Don't you be afraid of that.'
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：
-- Besides, they are afraid of my beak; and I have always a witty answer at hand.
-- And Gerda was so glad to be on dry land again; but she was rather afraid of the strange old woman.
-- But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.
-- 'But I am afraid we shall hardly succeed, for she is a queen!'
-- She was so down-A cast, so afraid that it should die!It was so pale, the small eyes had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so softly, now and then, with a deep respiration, as if it sighed; and the mother looked still more sorrowfully on the little creature.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt she was afraid of him, and afraid of the coming interview.
-- But that's just why I'm afraid to speak--because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway.... And then?....
-- He was afraid of sullying what his soul was brimful of.
-- You're afraid of spiders, and I of these vermin.
-- She did not very much like it that he, who was in love with her daughter, had kept coming to the house for six weeks, as though he were waiting for something, inspecting, as though he were afraid he might be doing them too great an honor by making an offer, and did not realize that a man, who continually visits at a house where there is a young unmarried girl, is bound to make his intentions clear.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The servant, enlightened by his disclosure, and afraid of being himself implicated in the crime, would doubtless become an ally of the detective.
-- Mudge was not afraid of being stopped by the Platte River, because it was frozen.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was afraid you'd go and get sore at me because I was so fresh, and I wanted to apologize and--I liked your being so crazy about your bacteriology.
-- At parting, Clif held Leora's hand and urged, "Honey, I think a lot of Mart, and one time I was afraid the old kid was going to get tied up to--to parties that would turn him into a hand-shaker.
-- But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory, for the thrill of uncharted discoveries, the quest below the surface and beyond the moment, the search for fundamental laws which the scientist (however blasphemously and colloquially he may describe it) exalts above temporary healing as the religious exalts the nature and terrible glory of God above pleasant daily virtues.
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