nerve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 神经； 勇敢， 胆量，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this wise did the two heroes strain every nerve to bear the body to the ships out of the fight.
-- On this, with fell intent he made towards the city, and as the winning horse in a chariot race strains every nerve when he is flying over the plain, even so fast and furiously did the limbs of Achilles bear him onwards.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I haven't the nerve and strength for the sort of thing you want."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you wound the optic nerve, you merely see flashes of light, just as disease of the auditory nerve merely means a humming in our ears.
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：
-- His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indu-rated by unremitted exposure and toil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell have not the nerve to say it?
-- There's only one man, I know, that has nerve enough for that, and that man's not a hundred mile from here neither.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I placed my palms against the main-mast, which was of a goodish bigness, and waited, every nerve upon the stretch.
-- It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk, but either it stuck too hard or my nerve failed me, and I desisted with a violent shudder.
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