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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was afraid something was going to happen, and I wished I hadn't spoken.
-- "Are you afraid I shall corrupt you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am afraid it is a very long way, for I came from there to-night.'
-- Slight and ridiculous as the incident was, it made him appear such a little fiend, and withal such a keen and knowing one, that the old woman felt too much afraid of him to utter a single word, and suffered herself to be led with extraordinary politeness to the breakfast-table.
-- Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery; and of the nightly absences from home for which he had accounted so strangely, having been occasioned by some unlawful pursuit; flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him.
-- Don't be afraid of the children; the baby hardly ever cries, and the other one is very good besides, I'd mind 'em.
-- 'I'm not hurt, don't you be afraid for me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the moment the justiciary began to speak, Maslova kept her eyes on him, as if she feared to miss a word, so that Nekhludoff was not afraid to meet her gaze, and constantly looked at her.
-- "I am not afraid of you."
-- But here wine could only be obtained from the assistant surgeon, and she was afraid of him, because he pursued her with his attentions, and all relations with men were disgusting to her.
-- "He is an excellent man, and I think----" Here she interrupted him, as if she were afraid that he would speak too much, or she would not say everything.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
-- I was afraid to turn.
-- And withal I was absolutely afraid to go!As I hesitated, two of the beautiful upperworld people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.
-- And why were they so terribly afraid of the dark?
-- "I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from the Queen's tone that she was a little offended: and they walked on in silence till they got to the top of the little hill.
-- 'I'm afraid I haven't got one,' Alice said in a frightened tone: 'there wasn't a ticket-office where I came from.'
-- 'I don't rejoice in insects at all,' Alice explained, 'because I'm rather afraid of them at least the large kinds.
-- 'I'm afraid he'll catch cold with lying on the damp grass,' said Alice, who was a very thoughtful little girl.
-- 'If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind,' she thought: 'and then I don't know what would happen to his head!I'm afraid it would come off!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.
-- Jim," he said, "are you afraid of blood?"
-- I'm not afraid on 'em.
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