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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast mass of this combustible, the field of which as yet is utterly unexplored, would suffice to warm Iceland for a whole century.
-- As a true nephew of the great Professor Hardwigg, and despite my preoccupation and doleful fears of what was to come, I observed with great interest the vast collection of mineralogical curiosities spread out before me in this vast museum of natural history.
-- The great and wondrous phenomenon then went on without violence--the outpouring was enormous, and the seething fused matter, ejected from the bowels of the earth, spread slowly and peacefully in the form of vast level plains, or what are called mamelons or mounds.
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：
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- And yet he knew that this too, in the eyes of the vast seething world, was ridiculous.
-- Connie wondered a little over Clifford's blind, imperious instinct to become known: known, that is, to the vast amor-phous world he did not himself know, and of which he was uneasily afraid; known as a writer, as a first-class modern writer.
-- There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
-- It would take many years for the liv-ing blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- Of articles collected on his various expeditions, there was such a vast miscellany that it was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair.
-- She was pretty, and conscious, and rather flaunting; and the condescension with which she put aside the superiority of her charms, and of her worldly experience, and addressed her sister on almost equal terms, had a vast deal of the family in it.
-- Fanny acknowledged him haughtily; the position she tacitly took up in all such cases being that there was a vast conspiracy to insult the family by not understanding it, or sufficiently deferring to it, and here was one of the conspirators.
-- For a gentleman who had this splendid work cut out for him, Mr Merdle looked a little common, and rather as if, in the course of his vast transactions, he had accidentally made an interchange of heads with some inferior spirit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
-- But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mor-tal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower.
-- Be that how it may, there stands the vast arched bone of the whale's jaw, so wide, a coach might almost drive beneath it.
-- The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
-- And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
-- For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious and contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant points.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- London!--that great place!--nobody--not even Mr. Bumble--could ever find him there!He had often heard the old men in the workhouse, too, say that no lad of spirit need want in London; and that there were ways of living in that vast city, which those who had been bred up in country parts had no idea of.
-- Mr. Dawkin's appearance did not say a vast deal in favour of the comforts which his patron's interest obtained for those whom he took under his protection; but, as he had a rather flightly and dissolute mode of conversing, and furthermore avowed that among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of 'The Artful Dodger,' Oliver concluded that, being of a dissipated and careless turn, the moral precepts of his benefactor had hitherto been thrown away upon him.
-- After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative f ace, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.
-- The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning-weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on, which makes a vast difference.
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