venture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 风险投资, (商业等的) 风险项目 vi. 冒险, 大胆行事 vt. 敢于, 大胆表示; 拿…冒险, 冒…的险，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was natural to have some civil hopes on the subject, and he said, 'I hope you did not venture far, Miss Fairfax, this morn-ing, or I am sure you must have been wet. We scarcely got home in time.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba surveyed him curiously, from the feet upward, as high as she liked to venture her glance, which was not quite so high as his eyes.
-- "And I'll venture to take and keep this in remembrance of you."
-- "Then," said the fiddler, "I'll venture to name that the right and proper thing is 'The Soldier's Joy' there being a gallant soldier married into the farm hey, my sonnies, and gentlemen all?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May I venture to congratulate you?
-- "With pleasure," said he, "though I venture to prophesy that you'll want very few hints.
-- Without encroaching on forbidden ground, we may venture to say that there can be no doubt between ourselves of that fact.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But we must make a provision for winter, or else we shall suffer from hunger,' said the cat; 'and you, little mouse, cannot venture everywhere, or you will be caught in a trap some day.'
-- But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.
-- Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
-- 'Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treat-ed me so ill.' Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.
-- The king had promised that he who would venture should have his daughter to wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden the sun shone on.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a crea-18 Gulliver's Travelsture as I must appear to them.
-- I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.
-- This preface made me so impatient, being conscious of my own merits and innocence, that I was going to in-terrupt him; when he entreated me to be silent, and thus proceeded:- 'Out of gratitude for the favours you have done me, I pro-cured information of the whole proceedings, and a copy of the articles; wherein I venture my head for your service.
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I might venture to remark that it is the least in the world deficient in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived, and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance, I should express what it presents to my own view.'
-- 'And pray, sir,' said she, 'if I may venture to ask a question appertaining to any subject on which you show reserve which is indeed hardy in me, for I well know you have a reason for everything you do have you received intelligence respecting the robbery?'
-- It may not be all-sufficient; how can I venture this morning to say it is!If that other kind of wisdom should be what I have neglected, and should be the instinct that is wanted, Louisa 'He suggested it very doubtfully, as if he were half unwilling to admit it even now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to venture upon some misplaced joke on the subject, when a small scrap of parchment fell out of the leaves.
-- He may venture without fear of explosion into the midst of the most inflammable gases, and the lantern will burn beneath the deepest waters.
-- But I will advance still farther on the road of inquiry and deduction, and I dare venture to say that this human sample or specimen belongs to the Japhetic family, which spread over the world from India to the uttermost limits of western Europe.
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