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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to carry away; no boilers to burst; no fire to fear, for the vessel is made of iron, not of wood; no coal to run short, for electricity is the only mechanical agent; no collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity.
-- "By the bye, M. Aronnax you are not afraid of sharks?"
-- By the bye," said I, trying to take Captain Nemo's careless tone, "are you afraid of sharks, brave Ned?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place!She was afraid at the depth of her feeling against the home, the milieu, the whole atmosphere and condition of this obsolete life.
-- He looked down at her tense clear face, with its heavy features, but he was afraid to look into her heavy-seeing blue eyes.
-- He laughed, startled, afraid perhaps.
-- "Then I'm afraid I can't come up to your expectations here, at any rate.
-- "As a matter of fact, none of us wants our throat cut, and most other people would like to cut it for us some time or other ""It's a nasty view of things, Gerald," said Birkin, "and no wonder you are afraid of yourself and your own unhappiness."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Are you not afraid of being carried away bodily, whenever you mention the devil's name?
-- Then she began describing with hysterical emotion the effect it produced on her to see black; and started, and trembled, and, at last, fell a weeping and when I asked what was the matter, answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!I imagined her as little likely to die as myself.
-- 'You've made me afraid and ashamed of you,' he continued; 'I'll not come here again!'
-- He held the knife in his hand, and pushed its point between my teeth: but, for my part, I was never much afraid of his vagaries.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our natural distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.
-- I do not know how I found the strength to do it at all, and I am afraid it was roughly done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and a little way under the arch.
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