brave是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 勇敢的v. 勇敢地面对(危险等)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Be a brave man, my Gaspard!It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than to live.
-- 'My brave wife,' returned Defarge, standing before her 253with his head a little bent, and his hands clasped at his back, like a docile and attentive pupil before his catechist, 'I do not question all this.
-- With this uneasiness half stifled, and half reproaching him, he had been brought to the pointed comparison of himself with the brave old gentleman in whom duty was so strong; upon that comparison (injurious to himself) had instantly followed the sneers of Monseigneur, which had stung him bitterly, and those of Stryver, which above all were coarse and galling, for old reasons.
-- 371 'La Force!Lucie, my child, if ever you were brave and ser-viceable in your life and you were always both you will compose yourself now, to do exactly as I bid you; for more depends upon it than you can think, or I can say.
-- said Mr. Lorry; 'what is this despondency in the brave little breast?
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is brave and intellectual.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kiouni is a brave and faithful beast."
-- Phileas Fogg, though brave and gallant, must be, he thought, quite heartless.
-- Phileas Fogg, the saviour of Aouda, that brave and generous man, a robber!And yet how many presumptions there were against him!Passepartout essayed to reject the suspicions which forced themselves upon his mind; he did not wish to believe that his master was guilty.
-- Mr. Fogg had not time to stop the brave fellow, who, opening a door unperceived by the Indians, succeeded in slipping under the car; and while the struggle continued and the balls whizzed across each other over his head, he made use of his old acrobatic experience, and with amazing agility worked his way under the cars, holding on to the chains, aiding himself by the brakes and edges of the sashes, creeping from one car to another with marvellous skill, and thus gaining the forward end of the train.
-- "No!you are a brave man.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sure, keep right on--fine brave virile bunch!A poor weakling preacher like me wouldn't dare do anything so brave as smoke a pipe!"
-- When he arrived at the Armory, with Leora timorously brave in a blue crepe de chine made in no recognized style, he did not care whether he had a single two-step, though he did achingly desire to have the men crowd in and ask Leora, admire her and make her welcome.
-- But such outsiders as Wickett and such silent riders as Martin and Leora and such totally absent members as Max Gottlieb were few, and the dinner waxed magnificently to a love-feast when Dr. Tubbs and Sir Isaac Mallard paid compliments to each other, to Capitola, to the sacred soil of France, to brave little Belgium, to American hospitality, to British love of privacy, and to the extremely interesting things a young man with a sense of co-operation might do in modern science.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There's no denying that you are a brave girl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave him the other, and he shook it heartily, and said I was a brave fellow, and went away.
-- For my part, I could have gone through agood deal (though I was much less brave than Traddles, andnothing like so old) to have won such a recompense.
-- 'He's as brave as a lion, andyou can't think how frank he is, Mr.
-- I felt very brave at being left alone in the 144solitary house, the protector of Em'ly and Mrs. Gummidge, andonly wished that a lion or a serpent, or any ill-disposed monster,would make an attack upon us, that I might destroy him, and covermyself with glory.
-- I could think of the past now, gravely, but not bitterly; and couldcontemplate the future in a brave spirit.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she asked, in what, for a defiant girl, was a faltering way; though, for a timid girl, it would have seemed a brave way enough.
-- She's hot and hasty, but she's a brave girl who'll never tell a lie however much the truth may harm her, and I've no cause to wish her evil."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The brave fellows whom I have persuaded to be my companions look towards me for aid, but I have none to bestow.
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