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：
-- Many a time, but for their devotion and courage the small band could not have gone on.
-- Thaouka especially displayed a courage that neither fatigue nor hunger could damp.
-- He forgot himself in thinking of this poor child, as he saw him showing a courage so far above his years.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these two facts in my possession I felt that either my intelligence or my courage must be deficient if I could not throw some fur-ther light upon these dark places.
-- If I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage I would not suggest it, but it is essential that you should do it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at times he would pluck up his courage and be full of hope and good spirits again, acting, in fact, as weak men do act in such cir-cumstances.
-- When he fell into a heavy sleep on the sofa on the veran-dah, without having had the courage to open a single one of the three envelopes, he again dreamed a painful dream, and once more that poor, 'sinful' woman appeared to him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this she darted furiously everywhere among the hosts of the Achae-ans, urging them forward, and putting courage into the heart of each, so that he might fight and do battle without ceasing.
-- Fierce Mars, to help the Trojans, covered them in a veil of darkness, and went about everywhere among them, inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo had told him that when he saw Pallas, Minerva leave the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of the Trojans for it was she who was helping the Danaans.
-- Thereon Minerva put courage into the heart of Diomed, and he smote them right and left.
-- Even cowards gain courage from companionship, and we two can hold our own with the bravest.'
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS At four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.
-- "This running warmed me to a certain extent, and I went on with a better courage through the maze of less frequented roads that runs hereabouts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate the Thing, whatever it was, lacked the courage to attack me.
-- Whatever it was, the Thing either lacked the courage to attack me, or it was waiting to take me at some disadvantage.
-- The minutes passed; the silence lengthened out, and at last after an hour of security my courage began to return to me.
-- Had I kept my courage up to the level of the dawn, had I not allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped the vacant sceptre of Moreau and ruled over the Beast People.
-- I began to realise what its presence meant, and the tide of my courage flowed.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To talk of the soul of a money-lender in a beast that never had the courage of a jackal is child's talk.'
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：
-- The hardy colonist, and the trained Europe-an who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportu-nity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.
-- If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the for-mer, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.'
-- 'I should be sorry to think they had, though this is a spot that stout courage might hold for a smart scrimmage.
-- 'With two such ex-amples of courage before him, a man would be ashamed to prove other than a hero.'
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