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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They seemed to need each other's support, morally, before they dared come in; not one of them would have en-tered alone but with the rest each one was brave enough.
-- Sure enough, some of the brave fellows entirely lost their heads at this point, and retreated into the next room.
-- 'Full of love for that sweet vision, Brave and pure he took the field; With his blood he stained the letters N. P. B. upon his shield.
-- She was in a state of unusual excitement, and though she put on a brave and even defiant air, she seemed to be rather alarmed.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- 'Help your brave son, therefore, if you are able.
-- With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears.
-- Ulysses led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Sa-mos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands.
-- Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, a man both brave and large of stature, brought nine ships of lordly warriors from Rhodes.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A brave heart and a courte-ous tongue,' said he.
-- I am only a baggage camel of the 39th Native Infantry, and I am not as brave as you are, my lords.'
-- Good-night, you brave people.'
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：
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
-- 'But you are just a man, for an Indian; and as I suppose you hold their gifts, your fathers must have been brave warriors, and wise men at the council-fire.'
-- 'Treaty or no treaty, I know full well that your two com-panions are brave and cautious warriors!have they heard or seen anything of our enemies!'
-- Let us then hope that this Mohican may not disappoint our wishes, but prove what his looks assert him to be, a brave and constant friend.'
-- Go, brave men, we owe you too much already; let us no longer involve you in our hapless fortunes!'
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：
-- They remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he himself been as well acquainted with the art of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation of a ship, Pencroft would not have hesitated to set out, of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for, accustomed to brave the fiercest tempests of the ocean, he was not to be hindered on account of the hurricane.
-- If these brave men had been told that a volcanic eruption would destroy the land, that this land would be engulfed in the depths of the Pacific, they would have imperturbably replied, Cyrus is here!"
-- "Well, yes, my brave fellow," cried the reporter.
-- "Yes," replied Pencroft, "and our brave dog is barking furiously!"
-- He did not put down the aspirations of this brave heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a brave thought!'
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