harm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 伤害， 损害， 危害，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.
-- 'And no great harm if it does,' said Mr. Woodhouse.
-- Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife's: his is a quiet, in-dolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!And what inclines one less to bear, she has no fair pretence of family or blood.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, if I'd wanted you I shouldn't have run after you like this; 'twould have been the forwardest thing!But there was no harm in hurrying to correct a piece of false news that had been told you."
-- "Oh, no no harm at all."
-- I do hope she has come to no harm through a man of that kind.... And then there's this disgraceful affair of the bailiff but I can't speak of him now."
-- "'Twould do a martel man no harm to have what's under her bonnet," said Billy Smallbury, who had just entered, bearing his one tooth before him.
-- Why ye know I wouldn't harm a worm no, not one underground worm?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this running about and worry won't help you and may harm thebaby.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There can be no harm in your going here to-night, and seeing for yourself that all is well with Tom, Jack, or Richard, before you go home,--which is another reason for your not going home last night.
-- I reasoned as I had reasoned already without knowing it,--if that be reasoning,--in case any harm should befall him through my not going, how could I ever forgive myself!
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- 'Do your worst, and welcome,' said the brute, 'what harm can you do me?'
-- No harm shall happen to you.'
-- But Red-Cap went joyously home, and no one 131ever did anything to harm her again.
-- 'Why,' answered she, 'I did not know there was any harm in it; you should have told me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sissy hesitated before replying, and so plainly showed her sense that they were entering on forbidden ground, that Louisa added, 'No one hears us; and if any one did, I am sure no harm could be found in such an innocent question.'
-- They were wrong books I am never to speak of them here but we didn't know there was any harm in them.'
-- The result of the varieties of boredom I have undergone, is a conviction (unless conviction is too industrious a word for the lazy sentiment I entertain on the subject), that any set of ideas will do just as much good as any other set, and just as much harm as any other set.
-- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.
-- But there's no harm in my trying.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at last, however, he discovered that my feverish impatience would do more harm than good--and that the satisfaction of my wishes could alone restore me to a calm state of mind--he gave way.
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：
-- I can't see I do a woman any more harm by sleeping with her than by dancing with her...or even talking to her about the weather.
-- She waited; and he had another try, doing more harm than good.
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