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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Julius's the most awful coward you've ever seen," she cried.
-- But he's the biggest coward of them all, really, because he's afwaid what people will think about him and Julius doesn't care about that."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first you wouldn't mind him.
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 biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod.
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