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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- Oliver was afraid to look at either her or the man.
-- 'Ain't you afraid of it, sir?
-- 'Yes,' said the gentleman, 'I am afraid it is the boy.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.'
-- 'Oh!I am not afraid of her dying.
-- But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it.'
-- 'I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.'
-- 'I am afraid you do not like your pen.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
-- What to do with myself at night I knew not, nor indeed where to rest, for I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me, though, as I afterwards found, there was really no need for those fears.
-- But the rain was so violent that my tent was ready to be beaten down with it; and I was forced to go into my cave, though very much afraid and uneasy, for fear it should fall on my head.
-- The mouth of this hollow was at the bottom of a great rock, where, by mere accident (I would say, if I did not see abundant reason to ascribe all such things now to Provi-dence), I was cutting down some thick branches of trees to make charcoal; and before I go on I must observe the reason of my making this charcoal, which was this - I was afraid of making a smoke about my habitation, as I said before; and yet I could not live there without baking my bread, cook-ing my meat, &c.; so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal: and then putting the fire out, I preserved the coal to carry home, and perform the other services for which fire was wanting, without danger of smoke.
-- However, after some pause I recovered myself, and began to call myself a thousand fools, and to think that he that was afraid to see the devil was not fit to live twenty years in an island all alone; and that I might well think there was nothing in this cave that was more frightful than myself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste.
-- He was afraid of catching cold I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
-- Poor man!I am afraid his circumstances may be bad.
-- "My judgment," he returned, "is all on your side of the question; but I am afraid my practice is much more on your sister's.
-- "I am afraid it is but too true," said Marianne; "but why should you boast of it?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie was afraid of what she was going to do, but she was relieved to know that this condition was ending.
-- "I'm afraid you keep her cooped up out there.
-- What have you got to be afraid of?
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