courage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 勇气， 胆量，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning, he went down to the Bank himself as soon as it was opened, and seeing his son's place empty (he had not the courage to look in at first) went back along the street to meet Mr. Bounderby on his way there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was I the victim of a madman, or was he a discoverer of rare courage and grandeur of conception?
-- Hitherto our courage and determination had overcome all difficulties.
-- "And your courage with it," said my uncle, speaking in a severe tone.
-- My last hope, the courage which had sustained me, drooped before the sight of this pitiless granite rock!
-- Rouse yourself, then, have courage and continue your route.
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：
-- Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say ''shit!''
-- Then she sum-moned her courage and looked at the man.
-- When the human being is full of courage and full of life, how beauti-ful it is!So she thought, as she watched him in silence.
-- But his courage wouldn't carry him so far.
-- 'It's the courage of your own tenderness, that's what it is: like when you put your hand on my tail and say I've got a pretty tail.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was scared at first, but seemed to take courage while he spoke to her.
-- But Young John had never taken courage to make the declaration; and it was principally on these occasions that he had returned excited to the tobacco shop, and flown at the customers.
-- She had taken courage now, and answered, far more in her usual manner, 'You are so good!But even if there was nothing else in it to be sorry for and ashamed of, it is such a bad return to you ''Hush!'
-- I should not have the courage to mention this to any one but you.
-- As the old gentleman inhabited the highest story of the palace, where he might have practised pistol-shooting without much chance of discovery by the other inmates, his younger niece had taken courage to propose the restoration to him of his clarionet, which Mr Dorrit had ordered to be confiscated, but which she had ventured to preserve.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the 'Mansion of Bliss', as Meg called it.
-- When the tea bell rang, Jo appeared, looking so grim and unapproachable that it took all Amy's courage to say meekly... 'Please forgive me, Jo.
-- 'Courage and honesty.'
-- They had a long talk that night, and Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him, given him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
-- She gave me a seat by her, and after my face cooled off, I plucked up courage and looked about me.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
-- Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.
-- Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted.
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