vast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 巨大的， 辽阔的， 大量的； 巨额的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this seedy gaiety entered a splendor, a tremendous black- bearded personage, magnificent of glacial shirt-bosom, vast of brow, wild-eyed with genius or with madness.
-- Sunset was a surf of crimson, and by night, when he stepped from the choking railroad coach and tramped the platform at Sauk Centre, he drank the icy air and looked up to the vast and solitary winter stars.
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：
-- He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who 'gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.'
-- Half an hour earlier, while he was bringing Raskolnikov home, he had indeed talked too freely, but he was aware of it himself, and his head was clear in spite of the vast quantities he had imbibed.
-- The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of rac-es and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.
-- 'Mother Russia,' as they say, is a vast country芒聙娄.
-- Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, for instance, who might be said to be the most respectable of all the lodgers, did not appear, though Katerina Ivanovna had the evening before told all the world, that is Amalia Ivanovna, Polenka, Sonia and the Pole, that he was the most generous, noble-hearted man with a large property and vast connections, who had been a friend of her first husband's, and a guest in her father's house, and that he had promised to use all his influence to secure her a 534 Crime and Punishmentconsiderable pension.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, arrayed for thepurpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with adeclaration.
-- 'If she should make her way to London, which is likely- for wherecould she lose herself so readily as in this vast city; and whatwould she wish to do, but lose and hide herself, if she does not gohome?-' 'And she won't go home,' he interposed, shaking his headmournfully.
-- He was so near, thatwith one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it,-when, a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward,from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mightybound, and the ship was gone!
-- I went up to my bedroom to changemy wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscotedapartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, Iremember), and the sedate immensity of the fourpost bedstead,and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed tounite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on anysuch daring youth.
-- I found a vast amount of profession, varying very little incharacter: varying very little (which I thought exceedinglysuspicious) even in words.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well!that is quite surprising, for we have had a vast deal of rain here.
-- And it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation, which had a vast deal of the lover.
-- 'You appear to feel a great deal but I am not aware how you or any of Miss Fairfax's acquaintance here, any of those who have known her longer than yourself, can shew her any other attention than' 'My dear Miss Woodhouse, a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
-- I saw a vast deal of that in the neighbour-hood round Maple Grove.
-- You must know I have a vast dislike to puppies quite a horror of them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
-- THE HOMESTEAD A VISITOR HALF-CONFIDENCESBy daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.
-- The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw ob-scurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
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