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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next minute they heard their claws attacking the moldering wood, and already formidable paws and hungry, savage jaws had found their way through the palings.
-- They cannot penetrate them; the means of transport are insufficient, and the heat and disease, and savage disposition of the natives, are impassable obstacles.
-- As yet they had not met with any of the aboriginal tribes living in the savage state.
-- The whole party were so interested in these replies of the little Australian savage that they all sat round him in a listening group.
-- To speak the truth, up to that moment he did not care much for a savage in European attire.
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：
-- The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness, like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.
-- 'A savage place indeed,' said the insinuating traveller.
-- All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
-- It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
-- But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen.
-- For now the savage goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons.
-- This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!'
-- 'Grin away,' said Sikes, replacing the poker, and surveying him with savage contempt; 'grin away.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ev-ery savage can dance.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was in view of the Moor that was swimming, I stood out directly to sea with the boat, rather stretching to windward, that they might think me gone towards the Straits' mouth (as indeed any one that had been in their wits must have been supposed to do): for who would have supposed we were sailed on to the southward, to the truly Barbarian coast, where whole nations of negroes were sure to surround us with their canoes and destroy us; where we could not go on shore but we should be devoured by savage beasts, or more merciless savages of human kind.
-- Besides, after some thought upon this affair, I considered that if this land was the Spanish coast, I should certainly, one time or other, see some vessel pass or repass one way or other; but if not, then it was the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages; for they are cannibals or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour all the human bodies that fall into their hands.
-- When I was come down the hill to the shore, as I said above, being the SW. point of the island, I was perfectly confounded and amazed; nor is it possible for me to ex-press the horror of my mind at seeing the shore spread with skulls, hands, feet, and other bones of human bodies; and particularly I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
-- Yet I entertained such an abhor-rence of the savage wretches that I have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that I continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when I say my own circle, I mean by it my three plantations - viz.
-- As in my present condition there were not really many things which I wanted, so indeed I thought that the frights I had been in about these savage wretches, and the concern I had been in for my own preservation, had taken off the edge of my invention, for my own conveniences; and I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Observe, I beg of you, the savage look of his eye.
-- He is still today as savage as the day I found him.
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