fearful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的， 吓人的； 害怕， 担心， 惊恐，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While they were thus comfortably occupied, Mr. Wood-house was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and fearful affection with his daughter.
-- She went, however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat grav-el walk, which led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of an hour.
-- Emma was obliged to ask what they had told her, though fearful of its producing Mr. Elton.
-- Emma was sadly fearful that this second disappointment would be more severe than the first.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure.
-- To have brought all this about her ears was terrible; but after a while the situation was not without a fearful joy.
-- It had become known that she had had a fearful journey to Bath, owing to her miscalculating the distance: that the horse had broken down, and that she had been more than two days getting there.
-- "The Soldier's Joy" has, too, an additional charm, in being so admirably adapted to the tambourine aforesaid no mean instrument in the hands of a performer who understands the proper convulsions, spasms, St. Vitus's dances, and fearful frenzies necessary when exhibiting its tones in their highest perfection.
-- Liddy, if ever you marry God forbid that you ever should! you'll find yourself in a fearful situation; but mind this, don't you flinch.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with in-numerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal ram-bles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early ris-ing of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
-- 'When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.
-- I travelled only at night, fearful of encoun-tering the visage of a human being.
-- I knew that a thousand fearful accidents might occur, the slightest of which would disclose a tale to thrill all connect-ed with me with horror.
-- My fa-ther still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey, for I was a shattered wreck the shadow of a human being.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thewhite children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankeepoliticians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of theneighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.
-- She looked furtively around her, as the treacherous, blasphemous thoughts rushed through her mind, fearful thatsomeone might find them written clearly upon her face.
-- When Scarlett first began secretly reading these letters, she had been so stricken of conscience and so fearful ofdiscovery she could hardly open the envelopes for trembling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg.
-- Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in these fearful terms:--"You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
-- and then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.
-- That fearful Impostor, Pumblechook, immediately nodded, and said, as he rubbed the arms of his chair, "It's more than that, Mum."
-- At length, one evening when dinner was over and I had dropped into a slumber quite worn out,--for my nights had been agitated and my rest broken by fearful dreams,--I was roused by the welcome footstep on the staircase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's not myself, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, 'I am fearful of Miss Gradgrind's taking cold.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alas!my readers will see a very different portrait of him at a future time, after he has gone through the fearful adventures yet to be related.
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