revenge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 报仇, 报复，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：
-- It will be the revenge for Cressy and Agincourt."
-- After this sad occurrence Tasman set sail, confining his revenge to giving the natives a few musket-shots, which probably did not reach them.
-- But in the present instance hatred and revenge were the jailers—not an indifferent warder; the prisoners were not bound, but it was because bonds were useless when five-and-twenty men were watching the only egress from the Ware-Atoua.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm certain that she's doing this to revenge herself on me, on account of the past, though I assure you that all the time I was blameless.
-- In inviting me here you yourself entrapped me for your own use; you thought I wished to revenge myself upon the prince.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself, for Hippodameia bore him to Pirithous on the day when he took his revenge on the shaggy mountain savages and drove them from Mt.
-- 'King Jove,' he said, 'grant me revenge on Alexandrus who has wronged me; subdue him under my hand that in ages yet to come a man may shrink from doing ill deeds in the house of his host.'
-- Then the son of Oi-leus severed the head from the neck in revenge for the death of Amphimachus, and sent it whirling over the crowd as though it had been a ball, till it fell in the dust at Hector's feet.
-- Stand by him, my friends, and suffer not the Myrmidons to strip him of his armour, nor to treat his body with contumely in revenge for all the Danaans whom we have speared at the ships.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery had burnt the boats to revenge himself upon me and prevent our return to man-kind!
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：
-- 'You would, then, revenge the injury inflicted by Munro on his helpless daughters.
-- Purchase wealth by her safety and satisfy your revenge with a single victim.
-- The sullen soldiers shouldered their empty tubes and fell into their places, like men whose blood had been heated by the past contest, and who only desired the op-portunity to revenge an indignity which was still wounding to their pride, concealed as it was under the observances of military etiquette.
-- Revenge is an Indian feeling, and all who know me know that there is no cross in my veins; but this much will I say here, in the face of heaven, and with the power of the Lord so manifest in this howling wilderness that should these Frenchers ever trust themselves again within the range of a ragged bullet, there is one rifle which shall play its part so long as flint will fire or powder burn!I leave the tomahawk and knife to such as have a natural gift to use them.
-- said Magua, after satisfying himself of the safety of the captive; 'the sun must shine on his shame; the squaws must see his flesh tremble, or our revenge will be like the play of boys.
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：
-- It must have been bad for the furniture, but I suppose the hostess took her revenge on the furniture of her friends when, in turn, she visited them.
-- His life was strangely divorced from material things, and it was as though his body at times wreaked a fearful revenge on his spirit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit, who appeared at the summons, deigned to make no reply to so needless an injunction, and after staring at Quilp in a threatening manner, as if he doubted whether he might not have been the cause of Nelly shedding tears, and felt more than half disposed to revenge the fact upon him on the mere suspicion, turned about and followed his young mistress, who had by this time taken her leave of Mrs Quilp and departed.
-- I'd give him his revenge to the last farthing he brought, whatever the amount was.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
-- On the other hand, I argued with myself that this real-ly was the way not to deliver myself, but entirely to ruin and destroy myself; for unless I was sure to kill every one that not only should be on shore at that time, but that should ever come on shore afterwards, if but one of them escaped to tell their country-people what had happened, they would come over again by thousands to revenge the death of their fellows, and I should only bring upon myself a certain de-struction, which, at present, I had no manner of occasion for.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perhaps, Miss Marianne," cried Lucy, eager to take some revenge on her, "you think young men never stand upon engagements, if they have no mind to keep them, little as well as great."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, she would not delay to inflict any injury, big or little, which would wound the object of her revenge and still leave him uncertain as to the source of the evil.
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