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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
-- I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middleGeorgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
-- Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even theleast attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
-- The unravaged statewas a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
-- Johnston fought desperately at Resaca and repulsed the Yankees again, but Sherman, employing the same flankingmovement, swung his vast army in another semicircle, crossed the Oostanaula River and again struck at the railroad inthe Confederate rear.
-- Scarlett had no qualm of conscienceas she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What alone was wanting to the realization of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital.
-- Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind.
-- When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
-- That I had a fever and was avoided, that I suffered greatly, that I often lost my reason, that the time seemed interminable, that I confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a brick in the house-wall, and yet entreating to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me; that I was a steel beam of a vast engine, clashing and whirling over a gulf, and yet that I implored in my own person to have the engine stopped, and my part in it hammered off; that I passed through these phases of disease, I know of my own remembrance, and did in some sort know at the time.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, 109I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particu-larly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
-- I slept about two hours, and dreamt I was at home with my wife and children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked, and found myself alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred feet wide, and above two hundred high, lying in a bed twenty yards wide.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- I turned back, and perceived a vast opaque body between me and the sun moving forwards to-wards the island: it seemed to be about two miles high, and hid the sun six or seven minutes; but I did not observe the air to be much colder, or the sky more darkened, than if I had stood under the shade of a mountain.
-- I stood upon a height about two hundred yards from the shore, and saw this vast body descending almost to a parallel with me, at less than an English mile distance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- 'I left my servant at the railway looking after the luggage very heavy train and vast quantity of it in the van and strolled on, looking about me.
-- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.
-- Your absence will make a vast difference to me, sir, as I think you very well know.'
-- Did he see any faint reflection of his own image making a vain-glorious will, whereby five-and-twenty Humbugs, past five-and-fifty years of age, each taking upon himself the name, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, should for ever dine in Bounderby Hall, for ever lodge in Bounderby buildings, for ever attend a Bounderby chapel, for ever go to sleep under a Bounderby chaplain, for ever be supported out of a Bounderby estate, and for ever nauseate all healthy stomachs, with a vast amount of Bounderby balderdash and bluster?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A vast field of lava skirts it on one side, falling away in terraces towards the sea.
-- All we could distinguish was a vast dome of white, which fell downwards from the head of the giant.
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