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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Verne has done a vast and useful work in stimulating the interest not only of Frenchmen but of all civilised nations, with regard to the lesser known regions of our globe.
-- The vast assembly dispersed under the influence of deep emotion, and at ten o'clock the passengers and crew returned on board the vessel.
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
-- Young Grant and the agile Wilson were scarcely perched on the tree before they had climbed to the upper branches and put their heads through the leafy dome to get a view of the vast horizon.
-- There seemed to be scarcely any air even, as though some vast pneumatic machine had rarefied it.
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：
-- Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble might have meant that he had concentrated a whole existence of happiness into the short space of eight weeks; but the sigh--there was a vast deal of meaning in the sigh.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sure,' she added, 'if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest pa-tience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with.
-- The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is it not, Mr.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, Xury's advice was good, and I took it; we dropped our little anchor, and lay still all night; I say still, for we slept none; for in two or three hours we saw vast great creatures (we knew not what to call them) of many sorts, come down to the sea-shore and run into the water, wallowing and washing themselves for the pleasure of cooling themselves; and they made such hideous howl-ings and yellings, that I never indeed heard the like.
-- Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water; for though I swam very well, yet I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath, till that wave having driven me, or rather carried me, a vast way on towards the shore, and having spent it-self, went back, and left me upon the land almost dry, but half dead with the water I took in.
-- Some days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not for-bear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast dis-tance I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
-- In the meantime, it occurred to me that it would require a vast deal of time for me to do this, and that I must be contented to venture where I was, till I had formed a camp for myself, and had secured it so as to remove to it.
-- that what might be a little to be done with help and tools, was a vast labour and required a prodigious time to do alone, and by hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose you have not so many in this part of the world; for my part, I think they are a vast addition always."
-- I'm sure there's a vast many smart beaux in Exeter; but you know, how could I tell what smart beaux there might be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods might find it dull at Barton, if they had not so many as they used to have.
-- A man must pay for his convenience; and it HAS cost me a vast deal of money."
-- "She seems a most valuable woman indeed Her house, her style of living, all bespeak an exceeding good income; and it is an acquaintance that has not only been of great use to you hitherto, but in the end may prove materially advantageous. Her inviting you to town is certainly a vast thing in your favour; and indeed, it speaks altogether so great a regard for you, that in all probability when she dies you will not be forgotten. She must have a great deal to leave."
-- "Civil! Did you see nothing but only civility? I saw a vast deal more.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.
-- She gazed into the lighted street when Minnie brought her into the front room, and wondered at the sounds, the movement, the murmur of the vast city which stretched for miles and miles in every direction.
-- The huge railroad corporations which had long before recognised the prospects of the place had seized upon vast tracts of land for transfer and shipping purposes.
-- In the central portion was the vast wholesale and shopping district, to which the uninformed seeker for work usually drifted.
-- These vast buildings, what were they?
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