monster是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 畸形的动植物, 怪物; 恶人，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, the people tore to pieces and scattered far and wide with great enjoyment, while the tradesmen hurriedly shut up their shops; for a crowd in those times stopped at nothing, and was a monster much dreaded.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that some of the delighted congregation thought that this referred to Mayor Pugh, and others applied it to F. X. Jordan, but wise citizens saw that it was a courageous attack on that monster of treacherous lewdness, Dr. Arrowsmith.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only a monster or a madman could treat them as you have; so you must be mad.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When weclattered through the narrow street of Chatham, and I caught aglimpse, in passing, of the lane where the old monster lived who 269had bought my jacket, I stretched my neck eagerly to look for theplace where I had sat, in the sun and in the shade, waiting for mymoney.
-- Bankrupt, as he believed, alikein circumstances, in all other hope, and in honour, his sole reliancewas upon the monster in the garb of man,"'- Mr. Micawber made agood deal of this, as a new turn of expression,- '"who, by makinghimself necessary to him, had achieved his destruction.
-- 'He's a monster of meanness!'
-- You have no idea whata Monster I felt, Copperfield, when I saw the whole family cryingand fainting away in every direction!Mrs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What you want is a friend who will give the monster a piece of his mind; a barbarian that has three millions (so they say), and will not give you a dowry; and a pretty girl needs a dowry nowadays."
-- And what do you think the monster was doing all the time?
-- I know enough of our affairs at home to know all that such a sacrifice means, and you must not think that I would lightly ask you to make it; I should be a monster if I could.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit.
-- The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was forever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him.
-- The God of heaven forgive me!Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost be-gan to think that I was the monster that he said I was.
-- I had been the author of unalter-able evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On came the blue lines,relentlessly, like a monster serpent coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always strikingagain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, after I had made the monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family), and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence.
-- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his comrade.
-- It was a sort of vault on the ground floor at the back, with a despotic monster of a four-post bedstead in it, straddling over the whole place, putting one of his arbitrary legs into the fireplace and another into the doorway, and squeezing the wretched little washing-stand in quite a Divinely Righteous manner.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this the robber ran back as fast as 26 Grimms' Fairy Taleshe could to his comrades, and told the captain how a hor-rid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, 'Throw the ras-cal up here!'
-- Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
-- said the king; 'I have seen many strange things, but such a monster as this I never saw.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little pur-pose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid!I only use the word to express a monster in a lecturing castle, with Heaven knows how many heads manipulated into one, taking childhood captive, and dragging it into gloomy statistical dens by the hair.
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