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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He wouldn't dare pick on her if she wasn't so poor," they said, and they talked of a jail- delivery.
-- Chapter 23 It may have been a yearning to give one concentrated dose of inspiration so powerful that no citizen of Nautilus would ever again dare to be ill, or perhaps Dr. Pickerbaugh desired a little reasonable publicity for his congressional campaign, but certainly the Health Fair which the good man organized was overpowering.
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：
-- No, to put it more strongly and more distinctly; not can you but dare you, looking upon me, assert that I am not a pig?'
-- If I had written the whole truth to you, I dare say you would have thrown up everything and have come to us, even if you had to walk all the way, for I know your character and your feelings, and you would not let your sister be insulted.
-- 'No, mother, no, Dounia, you won't deceive me!and then they apologise for not asking my advice and for taking the decision without me!I dare say!They imagine it is arranged now and can't be broken off; but we will see whether it can or not!A magnificent excuse: 'Pyotr Petro-vitch is such a busy man that even his wedding has to be in post-haste, almost by express.'
-- 'How dare you, you low fellow!'
-- How did I dare to give him twenty copecks?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- I dare say you would,Peggotty.
-- I dare say you'd quite enjoy it.'
-- The incident is soimpressed on my remembrance, that if I were a draughtsman Icould draw its form here, I dare say, accurately as it was that day,and little Em'ly springing forward to her destruction (as itappeared to me), with a look that I have never forgotten, directedfar out to sea.
-- I dare say no words shecould have uttered would have affected me so much, then, as hercalling me her child.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say Mr. Knightley will be so kind as to meet him.'
-- Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet.'
-- The list she drew up when only fourteen I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now.
-- 'I dare say,' replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, 'that I thought so then; but since we have parted, I can never remember Emma's omitting to do any thing I wished.'
-- You do not know it I dare say, but two or three years ago I had a great passion for tak-ing likenesses, and attempted several of my friends, and was thought to have a tolerable eye in general.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How dare you name that man in my presence!"
-- "He's not a wild scamp!How dare you to my face!I have no right to hate him, nor you, nor anybody.
-- But I'll see if you or anybody else in the village, or town either, dare do such a thing!"
-- Oh, if she had never stooped to folly of this kind, respectable as it was, and could only stand again, as she had stood on the hill at Norcombe, and dare Troy or any other man to pollute a hair of her head by his interference!
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare not expect such success, yet I cannot bear to look on the reverse of the picture.
-- I did not dare return to the apartment which I in-habited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.
-- Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.
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