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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I dare say not,' said Mr. Gradgrind.
-- You have been in the habit now of reading to your father, and those people I found you among, I dare say?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not dare to leave him, so waved her away, and at last fell asleep on the sofa.
-- I dare to say that if any river, any fjord has to be crossed--and I have no doubt there will be many--you will see him enter the water without hesitation like an amphibious like an amphibious animal, and reach the opposite side in safety.
-- "Easy enough, I dare say, but very fatiguing."
-- I dare not call it a perilous descent, for I was already too familiar with that sort of work to look upon it as anything but a very ordinary affair.
-- But I will advance still farther on the road of inquiry and deduction, and I dare venture to say that this human sample or specimen belongs to the Japhetic family, which spread over the world from India to the uttermost limits of western Europe.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You angel boy!If only I had!If only I had!No; my heart's as numb as a potato, my penis droops and never lifts its head up, I dare rather cut him clean off than say ''shit!''
-- She must only wait, for she did not dare to break his mysterious stillness.
-- Ah yes, to be passionate like a Bacchante, like a Baccha-nal fleeing through the woods, to call on Iacchos, the bright phallos that had no independent personality behind it, but was pure god-servant to the woman!The man, the individ-ual, let him not dare intrude.
-- Connie imitated the breathless Miss Bentley, 'your Ladyship, if ever I should dare to presume!'
-- 'Dare to presume!how absurd!But I hope to God she won't turn up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind; I dare say a prisoner begins to relent towards his prison, after he is let out.'
-- 'How dare you!'
-- 'You know, I dare say, that my daughter Amy was born here.
-- He knows, I dare say, that I have but one room here.'
-- 'You mustn't think of going yet,' said Flora Arthur had looked at his hat, being in a ludicrous dismay, and not knowing what to do: 'you could never be so unkind as to think of going, Arthur I mean Mr Arthur or I suppose Mr Clennam would be far more proper but I am sure I don't know what I am saying without a word about the dear old days gone for ever, when I come to think of it I dare say it would be much better not to speak of them and it's highly probable that you have some much more agreeable engagement and pray let Me be the last person in the world to interfere with it though there was a time, but I am running into nonsense again.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say I can't get one at all, for most people come in their own, and it's a long way to the stable, and no one to send.'
-- Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician.
-- 'How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes?
-- M. has made her plans, I dare say, and will play her cards well, early as it is.
-- 'I was very unwise to let you go among people of whom I know so little, kind, I dare say, but worldly, ill-bred, and full of these vulgar ideas about young people.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils.
-- "Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say eh?
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