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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not that I do not value your society; and you must never suppose that I have taken offence at anything.
-- She wasn't angry long, and didn't seem to remember my offence at all.
-- Oh!do not take offence at my words, gentlemen, for Heaven's sake do not be so touchy!'
-- I will go on only please do not take offence without good cause.
-- But suddenly he fell upon me almost with fury; I had had no time to mutter more than a couple of words; but he had doubtless observed that I was decently dressed and, therefore, took deep offence because I had dared enter his den so unceremoniously, and spy out the squalor and untidiness of it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Kemp's solar lamp was lit, albeit the sky was still bright with the sunset light, and his blinds were up because there was no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you ' 'Decidedly,' said I, 'I should be a fool to take offence at any want of confidence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, ma'am,' said the child, fearful of giving new offence by the confession.
-- CHAPTER 47Kit's mother and the single gentleman upon whose track it is expedient to follow with hurried steps, lest this history should be chargeable with inconstancy, and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt Kit's mother and the single gentleman, speeding onward in the post-chaise-and-four whose departure from the Notary's door we have already witnessed, soon left the town behind them, and struck fire from the flints of the broad highway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well-favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone.
-- My poor fellow was her son; and this mode of speaking of him politely kept alive, without any offence in the world, the pretence that he had fallen a victim to the Meagles' wiles.
-- 'Therefore, Arthur,' said his mother, 'the gentleman comes here as an acquaintance, and no stranger; and it is much to be regretted that your unreasonable temper should have found offence in him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he h ad been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.
-- Oliver's offence having been explained to him, with such exaggerations as the ladies thought best calculated to rouse his ire, he unlocked the cellar-door in a twinkling, and dragged his rebellious apprentice out, by the collar.
-- CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.
-- There was nobody inside but a miserable shoeless criminal, who had been taken up for playing the flute, and who, the offence against society having been clearly proved, had been very properly committed by Mr. Fang to the House of Correction for one month; with the appropriate and amusing remark that since he had so much breath to spare, it would be more wholesomely expended on the treadmill than in a musical instrument.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As long as I kept my daily tour to the hill, to look out, so long also I kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so out-rageous an execution as the killing twenty or thirty naked savages, for an offence which I had not at all entered into any discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my pas-sions were at first fired by the horror I conceived at theunnatural custom of the people of that country, who, it seems, had been suffered by Providence, in His wise dis-position of the world, to have no other guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated passions; and conse-quently were left, and perhaps had been so for some ages, to act such horrid things, and receive such dreadful customs, as nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by Heaven, and actuated by some hellish degeneracy, could have run them into.
-- The old goat whom I found expiring died in the mouth of the cave the next day after I made this discov-ery; and I found it much easier to dig a great hole there, and throw him in and cover him with earth, than to drag him out; so I interred him there, to prevent offence to my nose.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
-- "Excuse me," said she; "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
-- Marianne severely censured herself for what she had said; but her own forgiveness might have been more speedy, had she known how little offence it had given her sister.
-- It was forwarded to me from Delaford, and I received it on the very morning of our intended party to Whitwell; and this was the reason of my leaving Barton so suddenly, which I am sure must at the time have appeared strange to every body, and which I believe gave offence to some.
-- "She taxed me with the offence at once, and my confusion may be guessed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," he said, taking offence at her manner, "you needn't get mad about it.
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