savage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 未开化的; 凶猛的，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast.
-- The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled.
-- The influences of his solitary hut-life were upon him besides, and gave him a savage air that no dress could tame; added to these were the influences of his subsequent branded life among men, and, crowning all, his consciousness that he was dodging and hiding now.
-- In his savage taunting, he flared the candle so close at me that I turned my face aside to save it from the flame.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am a king's son,' he said, 'and I was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was freed by his death.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- My answer was, 'that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or in-terest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.
-- I now began to be a little comforted; and took out some toys, which travellers usually carry for presents to the savage In-dians of America, and other parts, in hopes the people of the house would be thereby encouraged to receive me kind-ly.
-- My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect hu-man figure: the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the 289nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted, by the na-tives suffering their infants to lie grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mothers' shoulders.
-- But it is impossi- 305ble to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race; particularly after I had explained the manner and use of castrating horses among us, to hin-der them from propagating their kind, and to render them more servile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this dismal spot they were rescued by a savage old postilion, who happened to be up early, kicking a horse in a fly: and so were smuggled into the town by all the back lanes where the pigs lived: which, although not a magnificent or even savoury approach, was, as is usual in such cases, the legitimate highway.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had every reason to believe that we had neither wild beasts nor savage natives to fear.
-- After traveling fully half a Danish mile, we had met neither a farmer at the door of his hut, nor even a wandering shepherd with his wild and savage flock.
-- It was a sort of wild and savage staircase, without bannister or fence.
-- I cannot describe its awful grandeur; human language fails to convey an idea of its savage sublimity.
-- at last exclaimed Professor Hardwigg between two savage growls.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitch-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who of-fered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money.
-- She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman.
-- In savage impatience he moved little handles and got more noises out of her.
-- Very nice!When savage wild dogs bark in Wragby, and savage wild pit-ponies stamp on Tevershall pit-bank!
-- And while she aided and abetted him all she could, away in the remotest corner of her ancient healthy womanhood she despised him with a savage contempt that knew no bounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the large, hard-featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bending its figured brows upon him with a savage joy when he was behind-hand with his lessons, and which, when it was wound up once a week with an iron handle, used to sound as if it were growling in ferocious anticipation of the miseries into which it would bring him.
-- They bore the trying spectacle in silence, until the mysterious visitor was at a safe distance; when they burst into pebbles and yells, and likewise into reviling dances, and in all respects buried the pipe of peace with so many savage ceremonies, that, if Mr Cripples had been the chief of the Cripplewayboo tribe with his war-paint on, they could scarcely have done greater justice to their education.
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