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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With which defiances the dwarf flourished his cudgel, and dancing round the combatants and treading upon them and skipping over them, in a kind of frenzy, laid about him, now on one and now on the other, in a most desperate manner, always aiming at their heads and dealing such blows as none but the veriest little savage would have inflicted.
-- In the smaller public-houses, fiddles with all their might and main were squeaking out the tune to staggering feet; drunken men, oblivious of the burden of their song, joined in a senseless howl, which drowned the tinkling of the feeble bell and made them savage for their drink; vagabond groups assembled round the doors to see the stroller woman dance, and add their uproar to the shrill flageolet and deafening drum.
-- And yet she was the innocent cause of all this torture, and he, gambling with such a savage thirst for gain as the most insatiable gambler never felt, had not one selfish thought!
-- Others drew forth, with clashing noise, upon the ground, great sheets of glowing steel, emitting an insupportable heat, and a dull deep light like that which reddens in the eyes of savage beasts.
-- But the Jamaica rum, and the joy of having occasioned a heavy disappointment, by degrees cooled Mr Quilp's wrath; which from being at savage heat, dropped slowly to the bantering or chuckling point, at which it steadily remained.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Or the removal," persistently continued Ignatius Nikiforovitch, "of those depraved and savage people who threaten the existence of society."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.
-- But a civilised man is better off than the savage in this respect.
-- I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
-- There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I uttered a cry of despair!Conseil took up his gun, and aimed at a savage who was poising his sling at ten yards from him.
-- And I also hope that his powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost!If it be so if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage heart!May the contemplation of so many wonders extinguish for ever the spirit of vengeance!May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea!If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I thought it was savage carving again."
-- Life was a condition of savage freedom.
-- Then he must travel into the savage regions that had so attracted him.
-- The result was, he found humanity very much alike everywhere, and to a mind like his, curious and cold, the savage was duller, less exciting than the European.
-- Although Gerald was quivering, his eyes flashing, his face flushed, in his argument there was a brusqueness, a savage contempt in his manner, that made Gudrun's blood flare up, and made Loerke keen and mortified.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- thundered Heathcliff with savage vehemence.
-- The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there 'lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
-- He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity.
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