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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this place, and safe for the moment from the frenzied natives, the captives lay down on the flax mats.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your advice, then, as I under-stand it, is that the young man will be as safe in Devonshire as in London.
-- Yes, my dear fellow, you may laugh, but I give you my word that I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound in Baker Street once more.'
-- 'You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,' said he, 'but, by thunder, the whole country-side seems to have been out to see me do my wooing and a mighty poor wooing at that!
-- I think that if we put something over his face he will be safe until morning.'
-- He had already on his insect hunts learned to penetrate the Grimpen Mire, and so had found a safe hid-ing-place for the creature.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't ever talk to him now, but I hold him in cheek, safe enough.
-- The fact was, Totski was at that time a man of fifty years of age; his position was solid and respectable; his place in society had long been firmly fixed upon safe foundations; he loved himself, his personal comforts, and his position better than all the world, as every respectable gentleman should!
-- Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds.
-- I shall now consider my mother as entirely my responsibility; though she may be safe enough with Varia.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she reached her home she found her maidens within, and bade them all join in her lament; so they mourned Hector in his own house though he was yet alive, for they deemed that they should never see him return safe from battle, and from the furious hands of the Achaeans.
-- Thus they parted, the one going to the host of the Achaeans, and the other to that of the Tro-jans, who rejoiced when they saw their hero come to them safe and unharmed from the strong hands of mighty Ajax.
-- If any of you is struck by spear or sword and loses his life, let him die; he dies with honour who dies fighting for his country; and he will leave his wife and children safe behind him, with his house and allotment unplundered if only the Achaeans can be driven back to their own land, they and their ships.'
-- I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia, or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Menoetius.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I did not feel safe there, however; people were going to and fro, and I prowled restlessly about until I came upon a huge section in an upper floor containing multitudes of bedsteads, and over these I clambered, and found a resting-place at last among a huge pile of folded flock mattresses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dreadful thing that I was only beginning to realise was, that over all this island there was now no safe place where I could be alone and secure to rest or sleep.
-- One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented it-self chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- Bagheera heard, and the cry that told him Mowgli was safe gave him new courage.
-- Then the Sea Cow began to travel northward very slowly, stopping to hold absurd bowing councils from time to time, and Kotick fol-lowed them, saying to himself, 'People who are such idiots as these are would have been killed long ago if they hadn't found out some safe island.
-- You're safe enough in your nest there, but it's war for me down here.
-- Rikki-tikki saw Teddy's father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across the little table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.
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：
-- Though, if I felt confident of his treachery ' 'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iro-quois,' said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
-- We are not safe while he goes at large.'
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