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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it.
-- 'Devil,' I exclaimed, 'do you dare approach me?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, they rode over to Twelve Oaks hours ago to sample the punch and see if it was strong enough, I dare say,as if they wouldn't have from now till tomorrow morning to do it!I'm going to ask John Wilkes to keep themovernight, even if he has to bed them down in the stable.
-- "How dare you say I'm buried alive!"
-- "How dare you make me so conspicuous, Captain Butler?"
-- "Don't you dare touch this bonnet," she said, clutching it by the bow and retreating.
-- "Getout!How dare you say such things to me!What have I ever done to encourage you to make you suppose ... Get outand don't ever come back here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
-- I dare say I should have felt a pain in my liver, too, if I had known where it was.
-- There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on Saturdays than at other times.
-- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces.
-- They come here on the day, but they dare not refer to it."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this the robbers never dared to go back to the house; but the musicians were so pleased with their quarters that they took up their abode there; and there they are, I dare say, at this very day.
-- 'Go into the garden and dig where I tell you, and you will find the yellow but-tons: I dare not go myself.'
-- But Snowdrop said, 'I dare not let anyone in.'
-- Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs' cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snowdrop put her head out of the window and said, 'I dare not let anyone in, for the dwarfs have told me not.'
-- 'No,' said Snowdrop, 'I dare not take it.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed 'how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet,' says he, 'I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and bur-rows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!'
-- This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.
-- However, this is an extremity to which the prince is seldom driven, neither indeed is he willing to put it in execution; nor dare his ministers advise him to an action, which, as it would render them odious to the people, so it would be a great damage to their own estates, which all lie below; for the island is the king's demesne.
-- To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He doctors sick horses, I dare say?'
-- How dare you dash against everybody in this manner?'
-- You have got some building of your own I dare say, now?'
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