escape是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 逃跑， 逃脱v. 逃跑； 避开， 避免，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In New Zealand they take refuge amid hot sulphur springs and in a house "tabooed"; they escape by starting a volcano into eruption.
-- He had caught sight of the travelers, and was flapping his wings violently, endeavoring to escape with his heavy prey.
-- The details given by the Sergeant, the nationality of the prisoner, the murder of his companions, his escape from the hands of the Indians, all evidenced the fact.
-- They quickened their pace, but could not go fast enough to escape the water, which rolled in great sheets at their feet.
-- If so, Glenarvan and his companions would escape scot free, except for a few vigorous douche baths.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice.
-- I hesitated but could not escape the question.
-- Uncle and nephew have been murdered the one frightened to death by the very sight of a beast which he thought to be supernatural, the other driven to his end in his wild flight to escape from it.
-- If we make one false move the villain may escape us yet.'
-- 'He cannot escape us, madam.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who is attacked by robbers at night, in a dark wood, or anywhere, undoubtedly hopes and hopes that he may yet escape until the very moment of his death.
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- All the time he was trying to forget some thing, to escape from some idea that haunted him; but melancholy thoughts came back, though he would so willingly have escaped from them.
-- We suspect, for instance, that having commissioned Lebedeff and the others, as above, the prince immediately forgot all about masters of ceremonies and even the cere-mony itself; and we feel quite certain that in making these arrangements he did so in order that he might absolutely escape all thought of the wedding, and even forget its ap-proach if he could, by detailing all business concerning it to others.
-- They lived, Hippolyte and his mother and the children, in a small house not far off, and the little ones were happy, if only because they were able to escape from the invalid into the garden.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Son of Atreus,' said he, 'I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are be-ing cut down by war and pestilence at once.
-- Remember this, and when you wake see that it does not escape you.'
-- Once he stayed to meet me and hardly did he escape my onset: now, however, since I am in no mood to fight him, I will to-morrow offer sacrifice to Jove and to all the gods; I will draw my ships into the wa-ter and then victual them duly; to-morrow morning, if you care to look, you will see my ships on the Hellespont, and my men rowing out to sea with might and main.
-- Diomed looked sternly at him and answered, 'Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and an end of you, you will give no more trouble.'
-- Tears began falling from their eyes as they beheld them, for they made sure that they should not escape destruction; but the lord of the earthquake passed lightly about among them and urged their battalions to the front.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Out of her hearing there was a view largely entertained that he was a criminal trying to escape from justice by wrapping himself up so as to conceal himself altogether from the eye of the police.
-- "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain.
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
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