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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet he had taken the obvious risk of discovery in declaring that it was not so.
-- You would have wished to tell me something, or in your kindness you would have brought me out some comfort or other, and so an unneces-sary risk would be run.
-- But how could I know how could l know that he would risk his life alone upon the moor in the face of all my warnings?'
-- 'To hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, I can assure you it was entirely on my account that Pirogoff telegraphed to Paris, and left Sebastopol at the greatest risk during the siege.
-- So at the risk of missing General Epanchin altogether, and thus postponing his visit to Pavlofsk for a day, at least, the prince decided to go and look for the house he desired to find.
-- However, the most astonishing and, if I may so express myself, the most painful, thing in this matter, is that you cannot even understand, young man, that Lizabetha Prokofievna, only stayed with you be-cause you are ill, if you really are dying moved by the pity awakened by your plaintive appeal, and that her name, character, and social position place her above all risk of contamination.
-- I ran some risk for you, you see.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I cannot however refrain from blaming Menelaus, much as I love him and respect him and I will say so plainly, even at the risk of offending you for sleeping and leaving all this trouble to yourself.
-- Achilles was greatly angered and said, 'You have baulked me, Far-Darter, most malicious of all gods, and have drawn me away from the wall, where many another man would have bitten the dust ere he got within Ilius; you have robbed me of great glory and have saved the Trojans at no risk to yourself, for you have nothing to fear, but I would indeed have my revenge if it were in my power to do so.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he was already running headlong, jumping from side to side, and I dared not risk another miss.
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:
-- shouted the scout, who did not spare his open laughter, though instantly checking the dangerous sounds he indulged his merriment at less risk of being overheard by any lurking enemies.
-- I see no enemies!They have sickened of a struggle in which they risk so much with so little prospect of gain!'
-- Heyward had already permitted his companion to bury part of his person in the thicket, when, stretching forth his arm, he arrested him, in order to ask: 'If I see you in danger, may I not risk a shot?'
-- After this termination of the scene, Duncan wan-dered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.
-- He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill; and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was, in fact, noted for preferring vicious animals, given to all kinds of tricks which kept the rider in constant risk of his neck, for he held a tractable, wellbroken horse as unworthy of a lad of spirit.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- "It must be reassuring to you to know that you certainly run no risk of incurring the resentment of the women you come in contact with," I retorted.
-- I told her that when I'd had enough of her she'd have to go, and she said she'd risk that."
-- They took the risk of running against one of the ship's officers and being hustled down the gangway with the toe of a boot to speed their going.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The tempest soon became such that Forster's departure was deferred, for it was impossible to risk the balloon and those whom it carried in the midst of the furious elements.
-- If we venture into the channel, we risk being carried into the open sea by the current, which is running very strong; but, if I'm not wrong, it is ebbing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was some gratification to Mr Quilp to find, as he took his place upon the roof, that Kit's mother was alone inside; from which circumstance he derived in the course of the journey much cheerfulness of spirit, inasmuch as her solitary condition enabled him to terrify her with many extraordinary annoyances; such as hanging over the side of the coach at the risk of his life, and staring in with his great goggle eyes, which seemed in hers the more horrible from his face being upside down; dodging her in this way from one window to another; getting nimbly down whenever they changed horses and thrusting his head in at the window with a dismal squint: which ingenious tortures had such an effect upon Mrs Nubbles, that she was quite unable for the time to resist the belief that Mr Quilp did in his own person represent and embody that Evil Power, who was so vigorously attacked at Little Bethel, and who, by reason of her backslidings in respect of Astley's and oysters, was now frolicsome and rampant.
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