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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had al-ready heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A deep and unchangeable consciousness of his own lack of talent, combined with a vast longing to be able to persuade himself that he was original, had rankled in his heart, even from childhood.
-- 'Have I been acting rightly in allowing him to develop such vast resources of imagination?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled.
-- The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon.
-- We drove off a vast quantity of booty from the plain, fifty herds of cattle and as many flocks of sheep; fifty droves also of pigs, and as many wide-spreading flocks of goats.
-- Swift as the thought of one whose fan-cy carries him over vast continents, and he says to himself, 'Now I will be here, or there,' and he would have all manner of things even so swiftly did Juno wing her way till she came to high Olympus and went in among the gods who were gathered in the house of Jove.
-- The sire of gods and men thundered from heaven above, while from beneath Neptune shook the vast earth, and bade the high hills trem-ble.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face.
-- In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes.
-- Silence came upon the place, and I found myself wandering through the vast and intricate shops, galleries, show-rooms of the place, alone.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A blind Fate, a vast pitiless Mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their in-stincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its in-cessant wheels.
-- There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark cur-rent with a deeper hue.
-- 'Twas done with Indian skill,' said the scout laughing in-wardly, but with vast satisfaction; 'and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.'
-- 'Yes, yes, I have heard that a young gentleman of vast riches, from one of the provinces far south, has got the place.
-- The scout laughed in his silent but heartfelt manner, and shook his head with vast satisfaction.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a booming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
-- Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swal-lows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; an rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watch-ing the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
-- On all sides he beheld vast store of apples: some hanging in oppressive op-ulence on the trees; some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the ci-der-press.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a salutary discipline to consider the vast number of books that are written, the fair hopes with which their authors see them published, and the fate which awaits them.
-- But the odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.
-- I smiled at the thought of the vast number of bad pictures he would paint before he died.
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