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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was thirty years of age, and his countenance expressed both courage and goodness, if the features were somewhat coarse.
-- Robert bade fair to be an accomplished gentleman some day, for John Mangles was to make a sailor of him, and the Major was to teach him sang-froid, and Glenarvan and Lady Helena were to instil into him courage and goodness and generosity, while Mary was to inspire him with gratitude toward such instructors.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme.
-- But it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its confinement, and burn all his courage up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been crouching on the step for some time: wondering at the great number of public-houses (every other house in Barnet was a tavern, large or small), gazing listlessly at the coaches as they passed through, and thinking how strange it seemed that they could do, with ease, in a few hours, what it had taken him a whole week of courage and determination beyond his years to accomplish: when he was roused by observing that a boy, who had passed him carelessly some minutes before, had returned, and was now surveying him most earnestly from the opposite side of the way.
-- murmured the man, in a horrible passion; between his clenched teeth; 'if I had only had the courage to say the word, I might have been free of you in a night.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A day or two passed before Jane had courage to speak of her feelings to Elizabeth; but at last, on Mrs. Bennet's leav-ing them together, after a longer irritation than usual about Netherfield and its master, she could not help saying: 'Oh, that my dear mother had more command over her-self!She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him.
-- Elizabeth's courage did not fail her.
-- In spite of having been at St. James's Sir William was so completely awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word; and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge of her chair, not knowing which way to look.
-- My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.'
-- She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this I understood that my man Friday had formerly been among the savages who used to come on shore on the farther part of the island, on the same man-eating occa-sions he was now brought for; and some time after, when I took the courage to carry him to that side, being the same I formerly mentioned, he presently knew the place, and told me he was there once, when they ate up twenty men, two women, and one child; he could not tell twenty in English, but he numbered them by laying so many stones in a row, and pointing to me to tell them over.
-- We were all a little surprised when we saw him; but when Friday saw him, it was easy to see joy and courage in the fellow's countenance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.
-- Elinor avoided it upon principle, as tending to fix still more upon her thoughts, by the too warm, too positive assurances of Marianne, that belief of Edward's continued affection for herself which she rather wished to do away; and Marianne's courage soon failed her, in trying to converse upon a topic which always left her more dissatisfied with herself than ever, by the comparison it necessarily produced between Elinor's conduct and her own.
-- She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The greeting drove all courage from her at once.
-- Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, seeing one great company after another, but finding no courage to prosecute her single inquiry.
-- She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply, but found no door which she had the courage to enter.
-- The recent protestations of Hurstwood had given her courage to say this.
-- Carrie gazed at him, and as she did so her ebbing courage halted.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with cour- age that's bor-rowed from their mass, and from their officers.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was just about to make one last offer, but he lacked the courage to do so.
-- When he found himself there, he lost courage and ran back a few steps.
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