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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were forced to bestride sharp peaks and leap over chasms so deep that they did not dare to look down them.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I couldn't be sure of that, but I dare say my fare knew all about it.
-- 'I dare say not.
-- I dare say he goes to Coombe Tracey for what he wants.'
-- It was unlikely that she would dare to say that she had not been to Baskerville Hall if she really had been, for a trap would be necessary to take her there, and could not have returned to Coombe Tracey until the early hours of the morning.
-- 'Because he so far forgot himself as to tell you a true piece of autobiography upon the occasion when he first met you, and I dare say he has many a time regretted it since.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- I dare say I may even come today if I have time, for I tell you frankly that I like you very much too.
-- Nastasia seemed to Totski to have divined all this, and to be preparing something on her own account, which frightened him to such an extent that he did not dare com-municate his views even to the general.
-- I have no right to ask your help, and I dare not allow myself to indulge in any hopes; but once you said just one word, and that word lighted up the night of my life, and became the beacon of my days.
-- I dare not indulge in any hope, because I am unworthy of it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wine-bibber,' he cried, 'with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our cho-sen men in ambuscade.
-- How dare you gibe at Agamemnon be-cause the Danaans have awarded him so many prizes?
-- And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen?
-- Then Priam, descendant of Dardanus, spoke, saying, 'Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, I will now go back to the wind-beaten city of Ilius: I dare not with my own eyes witness this fight between my son and Menelaus, for Jove and the other immortals alone know which shall fall.'
-- If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The human shape I can get now, al-most with ease, so that it is lithe and graceful, or thick and strong; but often there is trouble with the hands and the claws, painful things, that I dare not shape too freely.
-- Montgom-ery told me that the Law, especially among the feline Beast People, became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at its strongest; that a spirit of adventure sprang up in them at the dusk, when they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day.
-- Particular-ly nauseous were the blank, expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They tell me,' Shere Khan would say, 'that at Council ye dare not look him between the eyes.'
-- Shere Khan dare not kill thee in the jungle.
-- 'We dare not wait for thee.
-- They dare not move, and if you come a step nearer I strike.'
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：
-- At length Chingach-gook turned his eyes slowly toward his son, and demanded: 'Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?'
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