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：
-- For though the French commander bore a high character for courage and enter-prise, he was also thought to be expert in those political practises which do not always respect the nicer obligations of morality, and which so generally disgraced the European diplomacy of that period.
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：
-- In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people.
-- You have the self-satisfaction of courage without the inconvenience of danger.
-- She was a little ashamed of her courage and business capacity, but delighted that she was going to dine the next night with a K.C.
-- He dragged himself up the stairs; his feet seemed unwilling to carry him; and outside the door he lingered for a long time, trying to summon up courage to go in.
-- "You have not the courage of your convictions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding was courage personified.
-- Herbert also showed great courage and much of that presence of mind which may justly be called "the reasoning of bravery."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter.
-- 'No indeed, sir,' replied Kit, taking courage to look up.
-- Separation from her grandfather was the greatest evil she could dread; and feeling for the time as though, go where they would, they were to be hunted down, and could never be safe but in hiding, her heart failed her, and her courage drooped.
-- Looking into the room, she saw him lying calmly on his bed, and so took courage to enter.
-- However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that he was in love, but not as formerly, when this love was to him a mystery, and he had not the courage to confess it to himself; when he was convinced that one can love only once.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered.
-- Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help may even be hindrances to a civilised man.
-- Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away!At first she watched me in amazement.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this was more than Alice had courage to do.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.
-- As soon as I remembered I was not defenceless, courage glowed again in my heart and I set my face resolutely for this man of the island and walked briskly towards him.
-- Indeed my courage had begun to rise so high that I allowed myself a few darting thoughts on what would be the end of the affair, and while I saw certainly that I could spin it out for long, I saw no hope of any ultimate escape.
-- His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the colour to his face along with it.
-- But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers, rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two conclusions I must inevitably draw from it one bearing upon the unparalleled courage of Captain Nemo, the other upon his devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea.
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