ominous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不祥的, 不吉利的，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：
-- For the last two days the barometer has been falling in a most ominous manner, and is now at 27 degrees.
-- The wind howled amid the cracking wood, and mingled its moans with the ominous roaring of the rain.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the words 'as usual,' and again in her added, 'mine, at all events,' there seemed an ominous knell of some evil to come.
-- An ominous expression passed over Nastasia Philipov-na's face, of a sudden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the ominous word 'liberality,' Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that; the uncle made a graceful gesture of protest, which was so clearly a slight form of good breeding that it was not reassuring.
-- An ominous crowd gathered to see him dismount of the posting-yard, and many voices called out loudly, 'Down with the emigrant!'
-- 510 A tale of two citiesXIV The Knitting Done n that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited Itheir fate Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolution-ary Jury.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the plank-ing by my bunk.
-- Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness.
-- I sat down upon the edge of the sink, and with my eyes upon that ghastly pile of silvery light and ominous shadows began to turn over my plans.
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：
-- A third colored the post with stripes of a dark red paint; all which indications of a hostile design in the leaders of the nation were received by the men without in a gloomy and ominous silence.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A ground sea was heard; the thunder of its progress, as the waters rolled and swelled beneath me, became every moment more ominous and terrific.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then an ominous murmuring arose in the crowd and from under the arbor came ahumming as unmistakable as that of a hive of newly disturbed bees.
-- Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound thatbrought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.
-- The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, andthe town began to adjust itself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a moment's ominous pause.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visitor saluted him with another parting snap, and his nose came down over his moustache and his moustache went up under his nose, in an ominous and ugly smile.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There might have been cause for maternal anxiety, if Demi had not given convincing proofs that he was a true boy, as well as a budding philosopher, for often, after a dis-cussion which caused Hannah to prophesy, with ominous nods, 'That child ain't long for this world,' he would turn about and set her fears at rest by some of the pranks with which dear, dirty, naughty little rascals distract and delight their parent's souls.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coffin? Spouter? Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I.
-- While in various silent ways the seamen of the Pequod were evincing their observance of this ominous incident at the first mere mention of the White Whale's name to another ship, Ahab for a moment paused; it almost seemed as though he would have lowered a boat to board the stranger, had not the threatening wind forbade.
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