dare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 敢， 挑战， 竟敢，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew.
-- 'He isn't likely to take cold without them, I dare say.'
-- What they wanted in the room of death, and why they were so restless and dis-turbed, Scrooge did not dare to think.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are as good as another, I have no doubt: better, I dare say.'
-- 'Dare I ask you to explain?'
-- It's new to me, but you are right, I dare say.'
-- 'I dare say not,' rejoined Stryver, nodding his head in a smoothing and final way; 'no matter, no matter.'
-- He has no hand free, to wave to me; I dare not call to him; he regards me like a dead man.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the Tree did not even dare tremble.
-- 'Black snails, I dare say, there are enough of,' said the old one.
-- 'I am His garden-er, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're right though, I dare say.
-- He longed to look round again, but he did not dare do this, and tried to be cool and not to urge on his mare so to keep the same reserve of force in her as he felt that Gladiator still kept.
-- I dare say I shall manage to keep it up..." "Really!what an idea!But tell me, how do the peasants look at it?
-- Everyone might know, might suspect it, but no one might dare to speak of it.
-- She does not want anything, does not dare ask you for anything, she leaves it all to your generosity."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout would willingly have knocked the conductor down, and did not dare to look at his master.
-- The complainants would not dare present themselves with such a charge.
-- Passepartout, overcome by what he had heard, held his head between his hands, and did not dare to look at the detective.
-- "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!Parbleu!I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
-- The sincerity, rectitude, firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman, who could dare all to save him to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then penetrated him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sure, keep right on--fine brave virile bunch!A poor weakling preacher like me wouldn't dare do anything so brave as smoke a pipe!"
-- "I love her!I LOVE her!I'll 'phone her-- Wonder if I dare call her up as early as eight in the morning?"
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
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