insult是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 侮辱, 凌辱; n. 侮辱的言词或行为，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you wish me to beg pardon of this creature because she has come here to insult our mother and disgrace the whole household, you low, base wretch?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How you do run on," she said coldly, for there was no insult worse than being likened to a Yankee girl.
-- And on top of itall, he had the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals.
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：
-- And he comes so far into me!You must NEVER insult him, you know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because he is not free to show himself and to speak for himself, you would let such people insult him with impunity.
-- Fanny acknowledged him haughtily; the position she tacitly took up in all such cases being that there was a vast conspiracy to insult the family by not understanding it, or sufficiently deferring to it, and here was one of the conspirators.
-- How dare you insult me?'
-- 'I insult you, sir?'
-- 'Insult me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't believe any of you suffer as I do,' cried Amy, 'for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.'
-- That was adding insult to injury, it was altogether too much, and making some wild demonstration with her hands, Jo vanished without a word.
-- Laurie threw back his head, and laughed so heartily at this attack, that the felt hat fell off, and Jo walked on it, which insult only afforded him an opportunity for expatiat-ing on the advantages of a rough-and-ready costume, as he folded up the maltreated hat, and stuffed it into his pocket.
-- 'Tucked away out of sight, I dare say,' thought Jo, who could forgiver her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family.
-- If I ask him to stay, he'll think I'm jealous, and I wouldn't insult him by such an idea.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fiery pit!fiery pit!ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye insult me.
-- Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
-- But this insult is whittled down to a point only.'
-- "But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face.
-- But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his spirit was roused at last; the cruel insult to his dead mother had set his blood on fire.
-- Permit me to inquire the name of the magistrate who offers a gratuitous and unprovoked insult to a respectable person, under the protection of the bench.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The one thought that strengthened him was the insult offered by Carrie.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily: "Why do you insult me?"
-- "Geppetto, do not insult me or I shall call you Polendina."
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