terrific是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的; 非常的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying-glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner they were all alive.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not finish his sentence; for a terrific hubbub now arose on the terrace behind the flight of steps where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, "Hurrah for Mandiboy!Hip, hip, hurrah!"
-- A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity.
-- The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was terrific rain, the roof leaked without restraint, and the lady in charge of the Healthy Housing Booth, which also leaked, was taken home threatened with pneumonia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The difficulties underwhich they had laboured all night, and which had found utterancein the most terrific gasps and snorts, are not to be conceived.
-- We made merry in the little parlour, where the Book of Martyrs,unthumbed since my time, was laid out upon the desk as of old,and where I now turned over its terrific pictures, remembering theold sensations they had awakened, but not feeling them.
-- But, the sea, having upon it the additional agitation of the wholenight, was infinitely more terrific than when I had seen it last.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the dark-ness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head.
-- The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
-- A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pis-tols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
-- August 26th, 17 You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?
-- And now, be-hold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm firesides.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That terrific scandal concerning theCharleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room upstairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT CHAPTER 31 THE SEA MONSTER CHAPTER 32 THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 33 OUR ROUTE REVERSED CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT?
-- I looked curiously at Hans to see what reply he would make to this terrific announcement.
-- CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT Saturday, August 15th.
-- Two liquid columns rose to a vast height above the level of the sea, into which they fell with a terrific crash, waking up the echoes of that awful place.
-- As to the terrific roar of the explosion, I do not think I heard it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her bonnet was cocked up behind in a terrific manner; and her stony reticule was as rigid as if it had been petrified by the Gorgon's head, and had got it at that moment inside.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
-- He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.
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