coward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 胆小者, 懦夫，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：
-- Oh, miserable coward that I am!'
-- A coward is a man who is afraid and runs away; the man who is frightened but does not run away, is not quite a coward,' said the prince with a smile, af-ter a moment's thought.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are a coward and no soldier; you are nobody either in fight or council; we cannot all be kings; it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the sceptre of sovereignty over you all.'
-- Though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Darda-nians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low.'
-- Be off, girl and coward that you are, you shall not scale our walls through any flinching upon my part; neither shall you carry off our wives in your ships, for I shall kill you with my own hand.'
-- In the first place you attacked me before all the Danaans and said that I was a coward and no soldier.
-- He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almus Pickerbaugh was neither a coward nor slothful.
-- As the sloop stood out from Blackwater Harbor he stretched his arms toward his sisters and the peace of the Surrey hills, but as the few frightened lights of the town were lost, he realized that he was a coward and came up out of his madness, with his lean head high.
-- "Phageotherapy at a yegg sanitarium!I stand him only because I'm too much of a coward to risk his going around saying that 'in the days of my Success, I've gone back on my old friends.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am a coward and 芒聙娄 a mean wretch.
-- A coward and a fool!They wouldn't understand and they don't deserve to understand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus the lessons of my life have beenperverted!I have preyed on my own morbid coward heart, and ithas preyed on me.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, Scarlett, what a coward I am!"
-- It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward hiscourage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dear Mr Clennam, as I had the courage to tell you what the familiar difficulties in my travelling mind were before, I will not be a coward now.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Alabama boy!On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
-- Ha!a coward wind that strikes stark naked men, but will not stand to receive a single blow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the Jew, grasping the coward round the body, with both arms, as he sprung to his feet.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a coward she was, she thought to herself.
-- He was no coward in spirit.
-- Hunger and weakness had made a coward of him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There ain't a coward amongst them Shepherd- sons not a one.
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