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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm afraid this may be serious.
-- He nodded, afraid to look at the woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.
-- It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
-- 'It's not Katerina Ivanovna I am afraid of now,' he mut-tered in agitation 'and that she will begin pulling my hair.
-- What does my hair matter!Bother my hair!That's what I say!Indeed it will be better if she does begin pulling it, that's not what I am afraid of 芒聙娄 it's her eyes I am afraid of 芒聙娄 yes, her eyes 芒聙娄 the red on her cheeks, too, frightens me 芒聙娄 and her breathing too芒聙娄.
-- For if Sonia has not taken them food 芒聙娄 I don't know what's happened!I don't know!But blows I am not afraid of芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance withthis odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
-- My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful inappearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were herfault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid shewas but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother ifshe lived.
-- But I can't always look at him- I know him without thatwhite thing on, and I am afraid of his wondering why I stare so, 22and perhaps stopping the service to inquire- and what am I to do?
-- That, and a sense thatwe were both a little afraid of Peggotty, and submitted ourselves inmost things to her direction, were among the first opinions- if theymay be so called- that I ever derived from what I saw.
-- I was quite heart-broken myself, and am afraid that in thefirst transports of wounded tenderness I called Peggotty a 'beast.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am afraid you must have had a shocking walk.'
-- 'I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome.'
-- You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here.
-- But while I visit at Hartfield, and you are so kind to me, Miss Woodhouse, I am not afraid of what any body can do.'
-- 'Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "H'm I'm afraid not one to build much hope upon in such a case as this," the farmer murmured, "though he's a clever fellow, and up to everything.
-- "Mr. Boldwood, it is painful to have to say I am surprised, so that I don't know how to answer you with propriety and respect but am only just able to speak out my feeling I mean my meaning; that I am afraid I can't marry you, much as I respect you.
-- And I am afraid they will notice us, Mr. Boldwood.
-- "I am afraid I have made a hole with my tongue that my heart will never mend.
-- "No no!I am afraid of you indeed I am!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For several minutes the silence remained unbroken till the law student became almost paralyzed with embarrassment, and was equally afraid to go or stay or speak a word.
-- It was five o'clock, and Eugene was hungry; he was afraid lest he should not be in time for dinner, a misgiving 莽卢卢39 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 which made him feel that it was pleasant to be borne so quickly across Paris.
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