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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perish the fearful secret-let the flames forever bury it in oblivion."
-- His red eyes, his pallid countenance, his matted hair, his feverish hands, his hectically flushed cheeks, showed how terrible had been his struggle with the impossible, and what fearful fatigue he had undergone during that long sleepless night.
-- It resembled the fearful phenomenon of a similar character known to the travelers in the desert of the great Sahara.
-- If this sand spout broke over us, we must all be infallibly destroyed, crushed in its fearful embraces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.
-- Mr F.'s Aunt, after regarding the company for ten minutes with a malevolent gaze, delivered the following fearful remark:'When we lived at Henley, Barnes's gander was stole by tinkers.'
-- Indeed, he was fearful of something happening to Mr Pancks in the violent conflict that took place between the breath he jerked out of himself and the smoke he jerked into himself.
-- Not that he spared her, or was fearful of her being spent by watching and fatigue; he was not more troubled on that score than he had usually been.
-- Before parting at the Physician's door, they both looked up at the sunny morning sky, into which the smoke of a few early fires and the breath and voices of a few early stirrers were peacefully rising, and then looked round upon the immense city, and said, if all those hundreds and thousands of beggared people who were yet asleep could only know, as they two spoke, the ruin that impended over them, what a fearful cry against one miserable soul would go up to Heaven!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever his feelings might have been, Laurie found a vent for them in a long low whistle and the fearful predic-tion as they parted at the gate, 'Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.'
-- For the old lady was in the middle of her story, and long before it was done, Jo was off again, make more droll revelations and committing still more fearful blun-ders.
-- It's all settled, and can be carried out at once,' said Mr. Laurence, keeping hold of the young man, as if fearful that he would break away as his father had done before him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
-- To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
-- "The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing; the fears of being swallowed up by some dreadful tempest, or dashed upon hidden rocks, with all the other ordinary subjects of fearful contemplation, seemed scarcely entitled to a moment's thought; the dismal looking wreck, and the horrid aspect and revenge of the whale, wholly engrossed my reflections, until day again made its appearance."
-- The repeated specific allusions of Flask to "that whale," as he called the fictitious monster which he declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat's bow with its tail these allusions of his were at times so vivid and life-like, that they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look over the shoulder.
-- was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said the undertaker's wife, when Oliver had finished his supper: which she had regarded in silent horror, and with fearful auguries of his future appetite: 'have you done?'
-- Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed.
-- Then, falling upon his knees, he prayed Heaven to spare him from such deeds; and rather to will that he should die at once, than be reserved for crimes, so fearful and appalling.
-- He continued to utter the most fearful imprecations, until the driver had resumed his seat; and when they were once more on their way, they could see him some distance behind: beating his feet upon the ground, and tearing his hair, in transports of real or pretended rage.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was on the point of continu-ing her walk, when she caught a glimpse of a gentleman within the sort of grove which edged the park; he was mov-ing that way; and, fearful of its being Mr. Darcy, she was directly retreating.
-- She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as she walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt as made everything worse.
-- Eager to be alone, and fearful of inqui-ries or hints from her uncle and aunt, she stayed with them only long enough to hear their favourable opinion of Bing-ley, and then hurried away to dress.
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