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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when Achilles was now sated with grief and had unburthened the bitterness of his sorrow, he left his seat and raised the old man by the hand, in pity for his white hair and beard; then he said, 'Unhappy man, you have indeed been greatly daring; how could you venture to come alone to the ships of the Achaeans, and en-ter the presence of him who has slain so many of your brave sons?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is easy to know the pathways, and to find the licks and water-courses of the wilderness,' he said; 'but who that saw this spot could venture to say, that a mighty army was at rest among yonder silent trees and barren mountains?'
-- There was something so commanding in the distress of the old man, that Heyward did not dare to venture a syl-lable of consolation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we venture into the channel, we risk being carried into the open sea by the current, which is running very strong; but, if I'm not wrong, it is ebbing.
-- cried Cyrus Harding, who did not like his dog to venture into the treacherous water.
-- And woe to the insects which dared to venture there!No mercy was shown them.
-- But in the midst of this snow-storm, as terrible as if it had been produced in some polar country, neither Cyrus Harding nor his companions could, notwithstanding their wish for it, venture forth, and they remained shut up for five days, from the 20th to the 25th of August.
-- To the firearms were added the five cutlasses well sheathed in leather, and, thus supplied, the settlers could venture into the vast forest with some chance of success.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she.
-- Not caring to venture within range of such missles again, the boy discreetly sent in his stead the first cause of the interruption, who now presented herself at the door.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
-- On the present occasion, Mrs Quilp did not for a long time venture even on this gentle defence, but when she had recovered from her fainting-fit, sat in a tearful silence, meekly listening to the reproaches of her lord and master.
-- When they came to the notary's door, the man called out in a very respectful manner, 'Woa then' intimating that if he might venture to express a wish, it would be that they stopped there.
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 didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see I can't tell you.)
-- Which Alice did not venture to deny.
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 towards the end of the bombardment, though still I durst not venture in the direction of the stockade, where the balls fell oftenest, I had begun, in a manner, to pluck up my heart again, and after a long detour to the east, crept down among the shore-side trees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were too many English or French steamers of the line of Suez to Bombay, Calcutta to Melbourne, and from Bourbon to the Mauritius, furrowing this narrow passage, for the Nautilus to venture to show itself.
-- It was one in the morning when we arrived at the first slopes of the mountain; but to gain access to them we must venture through the difficult paths of a vast copse.
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：
-- Here at last she folded her venture and settled down like a crystal in the navel of snow, and was gone.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart My amiable lady!'
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