offend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 冒犯, 得罪, 伤害…的感情; 使厌恶, 使不舒服; 违犯, 违反，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully bonneted the Spirit at any period of his life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He obviously wants to offend me," pursued Sergey Ivanovitch; "but he cannot offend me, and I should have wished with all my heart to assist him, but I know it's impossible to do that."
-- "I would not offend you," his eyes seemed every time to be saying, "but I want to save myself, and I don't know how."
-- Does that offend you?"
-- He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling that he might offend his client by the sight of his irrepressible amusement.
-- Trying not to offend the other sledge drivers, and promising to drive with them too, Levin took one and told him to drive to the Shtcherbatskys'.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heavens, I don't care how much you offend people by missing engagements--well, after all, I wish you wouldn't, but I do know it may be unavoidable.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in any case he could not re-main a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his assistance and asking him to see them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After dinner, when we were sitting by the fire, and I wasmeditating an escape to Peggotty without having the hardihood to 51slip away, lest it should offend the master of the house, a coachdrove up to the garden-gate, and he went out to receive the visitor.
-- I began to reflect whether Ihad done anything to offend her; and my conscience whispered methat I had not yet told her about Dora.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knows I would not offend for the world.
-- I did it because I thought it would offend you; but, as you made no objection, I never did it again.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tell you how we'll manage," said the other, who perhaps felt it would be extremely awkward to offend his leading man just at this time.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strangethat the sharp smell did not offend her nostrils now.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope I have said nothing to offend you,' he added, in a tone of dislike.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I never offend you wilfully, Fanny,' said Little Dorrit, 'though you are so hard with me.'
-- I hope I may not be so unlucky as to make you think I mean to offend you again, for I never have meant to offend you yet, when I say I don't understand it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having with difficulty restrained an explosion of mer-riment, lest it should offend her majesty, Laurie tapped and was graciously received.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'His pride,' said Miss Lucas, 'does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
-- What advantage can it be for you to offend Mr. Darcy?
-- It pains me to offend you.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them; they were national, and I ought to leave them to the justice of God, who is the Governor of nations, and knows how, by national punishments, to make a just retri-bution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as best please Him.
-- 'You may as well ask me,' said I, 'why God does not kill you or me, when we do wick-ed things here that offend Him - we are preserved to repent and be pardoned.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I love to be reminded of the past, Edward whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it and you will never offend me by talking of former times.
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