supreme是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最高的, 最大的; 极度的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I resign myself," said the geographer, much flattered at having supreme command.
-- For a quarter of an hour this supreme struggle with the most terrible of elements lasted.
-- He always executed his task wisely, and this evening Glenarvan noticed he redoubled his care, for which he took occasion to thank him, the preservation of the team being of supreme importance.
-- If it is decreed that we die to-morrow, let us die bravely, like Christian men, ready to appear without terror before the Supreme Judge.
-- said McNabbs, in a tone of the most supreme contempt.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought that she had fainted, but she recovered herself by a supreme effort.
-- Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realized that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.
-- You threw it down, no doubt, at that supreme moment when you charged into the empty hut.'
-- Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us, but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappoint-ment.
-- On an emergency he could keep the hound in the out-house at Merripit, but it was always a risk, and it was only on the supreme day, which he regarded as the end of all his efforts, that he dared do it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face reddened with shame at the thought; and then there came across him as in a flash the memory of the incidents at the Pavlofsk station, and at the other station in the morning; and the question asked him by Rogojin about THE EYES and Rogojin's cross, that he was even now wearing; and the benediction of Rogojin's mother; and his embrace on the darkened staircase that last supreme renunciation and now, to find himself full of this new 'idea,' staring into shop-windows, and looking round for things how base he was!
-- On such occasions he was apt to evince a supreme contempt for his opponents.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hangs me a golden chain from heaven, and lay hold of it all of you, gods and goddesses together tug as you will, you will not drag Jove the supreme counsel-lor from heaven to earth; but were I to pull at it myself I should draw you up with earth and sea into the bargain, then would I bind the chain about some pinnacle of Olym-pus and leave you all dangling in the mid firmament.
-- A god has just come up to me and told me that Jove the supreme dis-poser will be with us.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is that sort of idiocy the supreme pleasure of the life of the mind?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having as supreme a contempt for the class that had thrown him off as for the class that had not taken him on, he had no personal disquiet in anything that passed.
-- 'I can't say I have so much as looked for it yet, my dear,' answered Fanny, with supreme indifference; 'all in good time.
-- Mr Dorrit threw in another compliment here, to the effect that business, like the time which was precious in it, was made for slaves; and that it was not for Mrs Merdle, who ruled all hearts at her supreme pleasure, to have anything to do with it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.
-- But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Duff, addressing Mr. Giles, with supreme contempt.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was exemplified in me, at this time, in the most lively manner imaginable; for I, whose only affliction was that I seemed banished from human society, that I was alone, circum-scribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the liv-ing, or to appear among the rest of His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow; I say, that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of a man having set his foot in the island.
-- Here I was run down again by him to the last degree; and it was a testimo-ny to me, how the mere notions of nature, though they will guide reasonable creatures to the knowledge of a God, and of a worship or homage due to the supreme being of God, as the consequence of our nature, yet nothing but divine revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of redemption purchased for us; of a Mediator of the new cov-enant, and of an Intercessor at the footstool of God's throne; I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form these in the soul; and that, therefore, the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I mean the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, promised for the guide and sanctifier of His people, are the absolutely necessary instructors of the souls of men in the saving knowledge of God and the means of salvation.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sees but one object of supreme compliment in this world, and that is herself.
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