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：
-- Evidently she meant to hurt and insult us.
-- Why does Epanchin insult me?
-- says he, 'don't insult me that way.'
-- The prince won't let you insult me.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You devour your people, for you are king over a feeble folk; otherwise, son of Atreus, hencefor-ward you would insult no man.
-- In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans.'
-- Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blind-ness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.'
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：
-- 'None is necessary,' returned Cora; 'who will dare to in-jure or insult the daughter of such a father, at a time like this?'
-- 'It will be your duty to see that none dare to approach the ladies with any rude intention, or to offer insult or taunt at the misfortune of their brave father.
-- The savages answered the insult with a yell, and immediately another volley succeeded.
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：
-- "There wasn't any need to insult her that I can see," I said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he had said a great deal to them on this point, he remembered that it was an insult to their understandings to make any remarks on what they must have felt so strongly without him, and therefore called Sampson Brass into the witness-box, straightway.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact that, judging her by her past and present condition, everybody, including the pimpled assistant, thought that they had the right to insult her, and were surprised when she refused their attentions, was very painful to her and called forth her tears and pity for herself.
-- Little have I changed if I could insult him and grieve poor Natalie," he thought.
-- The firm repulse with which she met the impertinent advances of the men was taken by them as an insult and exasperated them.
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 don't know," said Gerald, after a pause, "that he does insult the Pussum so very much.
-- He was silent now, feeling she wanted to insult him.
-- It was a subtle insult that never failed to exasperate her father.
-- She had still to get over the feeling of insult at the liberty taken with her freedom.
-- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this insult my patience was at an end.
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