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：
-- Will he dare to tell the hotblooded Scotsman that his children are left without a guide, though Magua promised to be one?'
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
-- 'A very good name, and, I dare say, handed down from honest forefathers.
-- I dare say I may have served Uncas some such turn myself before now; and I very well remem-ber that he has stood between me and death five different times; three times from the Mingoes, once in crossing Hor-ican, and ' 'That bullet was better aimed than common!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, he thought, how soon he 'd turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I dare say you'd like me to go," I said to the Colonel, getting up.
-- "I dare say."
-- Chapter XIIII dare say it would have been more seemly to decline this proposal.
-- I dare say he'd got stale.
-- He'll come back, and, as Dorothy says, I dare say he'll be none the worse for having had a bit of a fling."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is needless to say that he was a bold, dashing fellow, ready to dare anything and was astonished at nothing.
-- "It will be enough to light a fire at the entrance of the cavern," said the reporter, "and no wild beasts will dare to cross the threshold."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I dare be bound for that,' he said, darting a bitter look at the grandfather.
-- 'I dare be bound for that Nell.
-- I know she's always in that condition when I'm away, thought she doesn't dare to say so, unless I lead her on and tell her she may speak freely and I won't be angry with her.
-- Marry whom he pleased!They would like to see him dare to think of marrying any of them; they would like to see the faintest approach to such a thing.
-- 'I dare say he was a blessed creature then; but I'm sure he is now.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my own part, sudden questions kept on rising to my lips, and I dare say it was the same with the others.
-- I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though, for myself, I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth.
-- For a moment I hung by one hand, and after that experience I did not dare to rest again.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- it panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice, 'or they wouldn't dare to do it!'
-- Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: ' and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill ''When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, 'I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'
-- The knight looked so solemn about it that Alice did not dare to laugh.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Sir," said I, "upon my word I dare not."
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