safe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 安全的， 牢靠的； 谨慎的， 可靠的n. 保险箱，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, perhaps, it was a little unreasonable that these registrars inthe receipt of profits amounting to eight or nine thousand pounds ayear (to say nothing of the profits of the deputy-registrars, andclerks of seats), should not be obliged to spend a little of thatmoney, in finding a reasonably safe place for the importantdocuments which all classes of people were compelled to handover to them, whether they would or no.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But it is never safe to sit out of doors, my dear.'
-- 'My first enjoyment,' replied John Knightley, as they passed through the sweep-gate, 'will be to find myself safe at Hartfield again.'
-- I dare say we shall be all safe at Hartfield before midnight.'
-- He was satisfied of there being no present danger in returning home, but no assurances could convince him that it was safe to stay; and while the others were variously urging and rec-ommending, Mr. Knightley and Emma settled it in a few brief sentences: thus 'Your father will not be easy; why do not you go?'
-- Mr. Woodhouse would have been miserable had his daughter attempted it, and she was therefore safe from either exciting or receiving unpleas-ant and most unsuitable ideas.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE SAME NIGHT THE FIR PLANTATIONAmong the multifarious duties which Bathsheba had voluntarily imposed upon herself by dispensing with the services of a bailiff, was the particular one of looking round the homestead before going to bed, to see that all was right and safe for the night.
-- "Come, listen to me!I am six years older than you, and Mr. Boldwood is ten years older than I, and consider I do beg of 'ee to consider before it is too late how safe you would be in his hands!"
-- The exquisite relief of finding that she was here again, safe and sound, overpowered all reflection, and Oak could only luxuriate in the sense of it.
-- By this hurried contrivance Bathsheba's property in wheat was safe for at any rate a week or two, provided always that there was not much wind.
-- Gabriel felt his position to be anything but a safe one, and he resolved to descend.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For that matter,' replied the old woman, 'if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you!However, that's none of my business; I am sent to nurse you and get you well; I do my duty with a safe con-science; it were well if everybody did the same.'
-- The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was just that Yankee stepmother who squalled and said I was a wildbarbarian and decent people weren't safe around uncivilized Southerners."
-- As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from thehouse and she slowed her swift pace.
-- And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left taxation that ate up crops and barnsand the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation he intended to have them.
-- Womenknew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely tobe a very pleasant place for women to live.
-- He leaned down across the counter until his mouth was near her ear and hissed, in a very creditable imitation ofthe stage villains who appeared infrequently at the Athenaeum Hall: "Fear not, fair lady!Your guilty secret is safe withme!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had died at the bottom there," and he made an emphatic swing at the ditch with his manacled hands, "I'd have held to him with that grip, that you should have been safe to find him in my hold."
-- He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.
-- Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
-- When Mr. Wemmick had put all the biscuit into the post, and had paid me my money from a cash-box in a safe, the key of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his coat-collar like an iron-pigtail, we went upstairs.
-- Thither I went, and there I found him, putting the key of his safe down his back as the clock struck.
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