peril是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (严重的) 危险; 危险的事物，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tall grass blocked them up, and they were involved in the peril before they were aware.
-- However, John Mangles did not lose a second in extricating his ship from the peril in which she was placed by the condition of her screw propeller.
-- In the midst of this crowning peril he did not give way to any feeling of regret at having been induced to venture into this country of savages.
-- CHAPTER XV FROM PERIL TO SAFETYTHE night favored their escape, and prudence urged them to lose no time in getting away from the fatal neighborhood of Lake Taupo.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest.
-- As he was, when I first saw him after they found me and demanded to know if I would take him, and, at my peril be discreet as he was then, so he is now.'
-- Had he stood in peril of a less horrible sentence had there been a chance of any one of its savage details being spared by just so much would he have lost in his fascination.
-- Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused.
-- The truth is, my dear Charles,' 335Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and lowered his voice, 'you can have no conception of the difficulty with which our business is transacted, and of the peril in which our books and papers over yonder are involved.
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：
-- This deed of apparent cruelty, but of real ne-cessity, fell upon the spirits of the travelers like a terrific warning of the peril in which they stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene.
-- Then came the glowing image of Alice; her distress; her actual danger; and all the peril of his situation was forgotten.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II Martin had never known greater peril than swimming a flood as a hospital intern.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My beloved Sister, September 2nd I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant wheth-er I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "See, then," said Herbert; "think of this!He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea.
-- What was to follow that I did not touch upon; neither, indeed, was I at all clear or comfortable about it in my own mind, now that I saw him in that softer condition, and in declared peril for my sake.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' said the lord of the castle, 'if you will pass the night down there in the old tower, go thither; but I warn you, it is at the peril of your life, for it is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping, and at certain hours a man has to be given to them, whom they at once devour.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if this awful noise proceeds from a cataract--if, so to speak in plain English, this vast interior ocean is precipitated into a lower basin--if these tremendous roars are produced by the noise of falling waters, the current would increase in activity, and its increasing swiftness would give me some idea of the extent of the peril with which we are menaced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The said company being now relieved from further attendance, and the chief Barnacles being rather hurried (for they had it in hand just then to send a mail or two which was in danger of going straight to its destination, beating about the seas like the Flying Dutchman, and to arrange with complexity for the stoppage of a good deal of important business otherwise in peril of being done), went their several ways; with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
-- Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter.
-- And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.
-- Yet not to speak of the peril of the thing, it is to be doubted whether this course is always the best; for it is but reasonable to presume, that the longer the stricken whale stays under water, the more he is exhausted.
-- Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constable-fellow downstairs that he musn't be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without danger.
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