encounter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 遭遇, 意外地遇到，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：
-- If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the for-mer, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.'
-- 'I am glad to encounter thee, friend,' continued the maid-en, waving her hand to the stranger to proceed, as she urged her Narragansett to renew its amble.
-- As if satisfied with the toil of marching through the wilderness to encounter his enemy, the French general, though of approved skill, had neglected to seize the adjacent mountains; whence the besieged might have been exterminated with impunity, and which, in the more mod-ern warfare of the country, would not have been neglected for a single hour.
-- Not-withstanding the nearness of the enemy, and his own great personal danger, the countenance of the young warrior ex-pressed no other emotion, as the former was compelled to think, than amazement at finding men willing to encounter so useless an exposure.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," replied the reporter, who had already hunted the tiger in India, and the lion in Africa, "we shall soon learn how successfully to encounter them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies Hark!I hear Kit outside.
-- As her popularity procured her various little fees from the visitors on which her patroness never demanded any toll, and as her grandfather too was well-treated and useful, she had no cause of anxiety in connexion with the wax-work, beyond that which sprung from her recollection of Quilp, and her fears that he might return and one day suddenly encounter them.
-- She happened, while she was thus engaged, to encounter the face of the man on deck, in whom the sentimental stage of drunkenness had now succeeded to the boisterous, and who, taking from his mouth a short pipe, quilted over with string for its longer preservation, requested that she would oblige him with a song.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This member of the court, a very punctilious man, had this morning had an unpleasant encounter with his wife, which was caused by her spending her monthly allowance before the month was up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can understand your rising to the surface; but, diving below the surface, does not your submarine contrivance encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust of one atmosphere for every thirty feet of water, just about fifteen pounds per square inch?"
-- About eleven in the morning, being on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a troop of whales an encounter which did not astonish me, knowing that these creatures, hunted to death, had taken refuge in high latitudes.
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