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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you I do not mean to offend you in the least.
-- We are at such extremes, and I am so far removed from you, that I could not offend you if I wished to do so.'
-- You mean that an innocent lie for the sake of a good joke is harmless, and does not offend the human heart.
-- As if I COULD offend anyone here!I should offend you again by even suggesting such a thing.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus: 'Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in sub-jection.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I've done anything to offend you I beg you to forgive me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If my speaking should offend you, sir, my dealing, I hope, will make amends.'
-- 'Gentlemen,' cried Kit, on whom a light broke suddenly, 'Master, Mr Abel, Mr Witherden, every one of you he did it!What I have done to offend him, I don't know, but this is a plot to ruin me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to stop at his aunt's was to offend her.
-- And he married principally because to refuse would have been to offend and cause pain to the bride and those who had arranged the match.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was a subject which ensured Marianne's attention, and she was beginning to describe her own admiration of these scenes, and to question him more minutely on the objects that had particularly struck him, when Edward interrupted her by saying, "You must not enquire too far, Marianne remember I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste if we come to particulars.
-- I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness of what I can assure you to have been perfectly unintentional.
-- John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.
-- This delay on the Colonel's side, however, did not seem to offend or mortify his fair companion in the least, for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards, and moving different ways, Mrs. Jennings very plainly heard Elinor say, and with a voice which shewed her to feel what she said,"I shall always think myself very much obliged to you."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being people of great refinement, they did not want to offend you so deeply as not to allow you the honor of paying the bill."
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