offence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 犯罪， 犯规； 冒犯，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A nar-row winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.
-- Their housekeeping was of a very frugal kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people, but because they were not rich, and Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "An offence has been committed on Indian soil.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way she was busy for several days in driving about the whole town, because some people had taken offence through precedence having been given to others.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Good gracious me, Peggotty,' returned mymother, 'what a nonsensical woman you are!when you know thatshe took offence at the poor dear boy's ever being born at all!'
-- I had perception enough to know that mymother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me,or be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by hermanner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she wasnot only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of myoffending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.
-- She received me with the utmost humility, andapologised to me for giving her son a kiss, observing that, lowly asthey were, they had their natural affections, which they hopedwould give no offence to any one.
-- Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all.
-- I trust I give no offence tothe companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to hiscooler judgment?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offence came not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him, an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved; and if he thought she wanted him to woo her, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness.
-- "Can you ask Miss Everdene knowing as you do what my offence is based on?"
-- "Now, ma'am, and no offence I hope, I ask what dance you would like next?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight, and assisted me up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grat-ing upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examina-tion, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
-- After a short silence, he told me, 'he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the af-fair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest 357of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utter-ly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural prav-ity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms' cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
-- It was generally considered, indeed, that she had been due some time, and ought to have fallen long ago; but she had kept her life, and her situation, with an ill-conditioned tenacity that occasioned much offence and disappointment.
-- Bounderby,' he resumed, in a lighter manner, and yet with a show of effort in assuming it, which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed; 'it is no irrevocable offence in a young fellow of your brother's years, if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive a little dissipated, in the common phrase.
-- 'Do you suppose if there was any offence given me, I shouldn't name it, and request to have it corrected?
-- If Mr. Bounderby had ever know'd me right if he'd ever know'd me at aw he would'n ha' took'n offence wi' me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His obtuseness on the great Testimonial question was not calculated to awaken admiration in the paternal breast, but had rather a tendency to give offence in that sensitive quarter, and to be regarded as a positive shortcoming in point of gentlemanly feeling.
-- The offence was proved, as she delivered the indictment.
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