risk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 冒…的危险n. 冒险; 风险,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:
-- I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was very well aware that he ran no risk of being ridiculous in the eyes of Betsy or any other fashionable people.
-- He could not begin to talk of anything without the conversation turning on Alexey Alexandrovitch; he could not go anywhere without risk of meeting him.
-- "A silly woman's chatter," he said: "but why risk it, why provoke?..."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "All right," said Mr. Fogg; and, turning to the others, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring's which I will willingly risk upon it."
-- "But, Mr. Fogg," pursued Sir Francis, "you run the risk of having some difficulty about this worthy fellow's adventure at the pagoda."
-- Mr. Fogg was going to risk life, or at least liberty, and therefore the success of his tour.
-- "However," resumed the guide, "it is certain, not only that we shall risk our lives, but horrible tortures, if we are taken."
-- What was her astonishment to find herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers to her!Her companions first set about fully reviving her with a little liquor, and then Sir Francis narrated to her what had passed, dwelling upon the courage with which Phileas Fogg had not hesitated to risk his life to save her, and recounting the happy sequel of the venture, the result of Passepartout's rash idea.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sir Robert listened so agreeably that Martin thought he understood, but at the end he bellowed: "Young man, if I were commanding a division at the front, with a dud show, an awful show, going on, and a War Office clerk asked me to risk the whole thing to try out some precious little invention of his own, can you imagine what I'd answer?
-- Martin was at the moment hovering over a method of reproducing phage on dead bacteria, but he could not refuse, he could not risk being discharged.
-- "Phageotherapy at a yegg sanitarium!I stand him only because I'm too much of a coward to risk his going around saying that 'in the days of my Success, I've gone back on my old friends.'
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:
-- 'A man will commit a clever murder at the risk of his life and then at once he goes drinking in a tavern.
-- You will admit that recollect-ing your embarrassment, your eagerness to get away and the fact that you kept your hands for some time on the table, and taking into consideration your social position and the habits associated with it, I was, so to say, with horror and positively against my will, compelled to entertain a suspi-cion a cruel, but justifiable suspicion!I will add further and repeat that in spite of my positive conviction, I realise that I run a certain risk in making this accusation, but as you see, I could not let it pass.
-- cried Lebeziatnikov, 'that's nonsense!Call the police and I'll take my oath!There's only one thing I can't understand: what made him risk such a contemptible action.
-- And however she came to risk taking such a beautiful creature into her house as a governess.
-- 'If you didn't believe it, how could you risk coming alone to my rooms?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That would obviously be inconvenient andunpleasant to the customers, besides entailing on the BlueWhatever-it-was, the risk of funeral expenses.
-- He leaned againstthe chimney-piece, brooding so long that I could not decidewhether to run the risk of disturbing him by going, or to remainquietly where I was, until he should come out of his reverie.
-- But for the reluctance I had, to betray the confidence of Agnes, but for my uncertainty how to approach the subject with no risk of doing so, it would have reached them before he said, 'God bless you, Daisy, and good-night!'
-- 'Oh, what a reward it is,' said Uriah,drawing up one leg, at the risk of bringing down upon himselfanother visitation from my aunt, 'to be so trusted in!But I hope Iam able to do something to relieve him from the fatigues ofbusiness, Master Copperfield!'
-- Even when dislodged, he still kept the letter in hismouth; and on my endeavouring to take it from him, at theimminent risk of being bitten, he kept it between his teeth sopertinaciously as to suffer himself to be held suspended in the airby means of the document.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am sure, rather than run the risk of hurting Mr. and Mrs. Cole, you would stay a little longer than you might wish.
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