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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they came to the dark corner where their unfrequent meetings always ended, they stopped, still silent, as if both were afraid to speak.
-- 'I am afraid you are mercenary, Tom.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was afraid my enthusiasm would cool.
-- But a great question now presented itself to our notice, and one we were actually afraid to contemplate in all its bearings.
-- I was afraid to waken them, knowing the danger of such a sudden start.
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：
-- He was in some way afraid of them, he could not bear to have them look at him now he was lame.
-- To Clifford he said the same, when the two men were alone: 'I'm afraid it doesn't quite suit Connie to be a demi-vierge.'
-- I'm afraid you mistake unscrupu-lousness for generosity.'
-- 'I'm afraid Bolshevism is a large question,' said Ham-mond, shaking his head seriously.
-- Only she began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble, detestable as false teeth, which stuck up on the hill-side, under Tevershall church, and which she saw with such grim painfulness from the park.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am afraid I have inadvertently touched upon a tender theme.'
-- 'I am not much used to the society of young ladies, and I am afraid I may not show my appreciation of it as others might.
-- I am afraid of you.'
-- 'Afraid of me?'
-- Do, do go away, for I am afraid of you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am afraid I don't.'
-- 'I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top.
-- Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people.'
-- I'm afraid he isn't having such a merry Christmas as we are.'
-- Once I was wicked enough to stop in a thrill-ing place, and say meekly, 'I'm afraid it tires you, ma'am.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
-- In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
-- "Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again, "Queequeg here wouldn't harm a hair of your head."
-- What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him.
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