victim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 牺牲品， 受害者，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：
-- The Kai-Koumou drew near; suddenly the wretched victim rose; but a violent blow from a "MERE," a kind of club brandished by the chief, struck her to the ground; she fell senseless.
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：
-- 'What a nerve the fellow has!How he pulled himself together in the face of what must have been a paralyzing shock when he found that the wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot.
-- It was a cunning device, for, apart from the chance of driving your victim to his death, what peasant would ven-ture to inquire too closely into such a creature should he get sight of it, as many have done, upon the moor?
-- He must act at once, or his victim might get be-yond his power.
-- If its appearance did not frighten its victim to death, at least it would para-lyze the resistance which might be offered.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
-- Not knowing that it was a fit, and seeing his victim disappear head foremost into the darkness, hearing his head strike the stone steps below with a crash, Rogojin rushed downstairs, skirting the body, and flung himself headlong out of the hotel, like a raving madman.
-- His skeleton-like figure, his ghastly complexion, the brightness of his eyes, and the red spots of colour on his cheeks, betrayed the victim of consumption to the most casual glance.
-- 'And she is not guilty oh God! Every moment she be-moans and bewails herself, and cries out that she does not admit any guilt, that she is the victim of circumstances the victim of a wicked libertine.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grafting of skin and bone is done to facili-tate healing: the surgeon places in the middle of the wound pieces of skin snipped from another animal, or fragments of bone from a victim freshly killed.
-- So indurated was I at that time to the abomination of the place, that I heard without a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture.
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：
-- The lightning is not quicker than was the flame from the rifle of Hawkeye; the limbs of the victim trembled and contracted, the head fell to the bosom, and the body parted the foam-ing waters like lead, when the element closed above it, in its ceaseless velocity, and every vestige of the unhappy Huron was lost forever.
-- The most positive mandate from him who seemed the acknowledged leader, was liable to be violated at each moment by any rash hand that might choose to sacrifice a victim to the manes of some dead friend or relative.
-- Fortunately, the vindictive Magua was searching for his victim in the very band the veteran had just quitted.
-- The unwonted sounds caught the ears of a distant savage, who flew raging from group to group, like one who, scorning to touch the vulgar herd, hunted for some victim more worthy of his renown.
-- The fierce Huron was, at any time, sufficient for himself and the victim that he bore; though Cora would have fallen more than once under the blows of her savage enemies, but for the extraordinary being who stalked in her rear, and who now appeared to the astonished natives gifted with the protecting spirit of madness.
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：
-- Perhaps when he went to Paris he was too old to fall a victim to the glamour of his environment.
-- He hinted at undeserved misfortune, and there is no doubt that he looked upon himself as the victim of injustice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But fortunately the dog had fallen upon a brood, and besides the victim he was devouring, two other rodents the animals in question belonged to that order lay strangled on the turf.
-- But the operator could not be there to give the blow, without becoming a victim to the operation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The victim cried, but in a subdued manner as if she feared to raise her voice, and Miss Sally, comforting herself with a pinch of snuff, ascended the stairs, just as Richard had safely reached the office.
-- The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear conscience, he cannot fail to be sustained under his trials, and somehow or other to come right at last; 'in which case,' say they who have hunted him down, ' though we certainly don't expect it nobody will be better pleased than we.'
-- Unmindful of her stealthy tread, her victim holds his course in fancied triumph.
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