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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the way, do you know that the monster comes every day to inquire after your health?'
-- 'You call him a monster so often that it makes me suspi-cious.'
-- 'Suddenly the monster reappeared; it crawled slowly across the room and made for the door, as though with some fixed intention, and with a slow movement that was more horrible than ever.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.
-- She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove.
-- On this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him.
-- Monster that he is; would indeed that the gods loved him no better than I do, for so, dogs and vultures would soon devour him as he lay stretched on earth, and a load of grief would be lifted from my heart, for many a brave son has he reft from me, ei-ther by killing them or selling them away in the islands that are beyond the sea: even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he did so a slouch- ing monster wriggled out of one of the places, further up this strange street, and stood up in featureless silhouette against the bright green beyond, staring at me.
-- I dashed my shoulder into a clumsy monster who was turning to see what Moreau meant, and flung him forward into another.
-- The more I looked at it the clumsier it seemed, until at last I put the monster out of its misery.
-- said Moreau, and the hairy-grey monster bowed his face in the dust.
-- Immediately after appeared a monster in head-long pursuit, blood-bedabbled, who was amongst us almost before he could stop his career.
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：
-- Any other than a monster would have relented at such an act of generous devotion to the best and purest affection; but the breast of the Huron was a stranger to sympathy.
-- Looking around, he beheld the shaggy monster seated on end in a shadow of the cavern, where, while his restless body swung in the uneasy manner of the animal, it repeated, in a sort of low growl, sounds, if not words, which bore some slight re-semblance to the melody of the singer.
-- I would have spoken a word of comfort to the afflicted soul; but the sight of such a monster might upset her reason.
-- Go, malignant monster why do you delay?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stirred not, but seemed gathered up in the gloom, like some gigan-tic monster ready to spring upon the traveller.
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：
-- When I saw that Strickland was really indifferent to the blame his conduct must excite, I could only draw back in horror as from a monster of hardly human shape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wished to penetrate the mystery of that submarine combat, and to ascertain what monster could have given the dugong so strange a wound.
-- If some marine monster had been surprised unawares by the retreat of the water, he would by this time have regained the sea by the subterranean passage, before the new opening had been offered to him.
-- Did some marine monster come from time to time, to breathe at the bottom of this well?
-- In the meanwhile, the monster thus stranded did not move, nor attempt by struggling to regain the water while the tide was still high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames.
-- But Kit was innocent; and knowing this, and feeling that his best friends deemed him guilty that Mr and Mrs Garland would look upon him as a monster of ingratitude that Barbara would associate him with all that was bad and criminal that the pony would consider himself forsaken and that even his own mother might perhaps yield to the strong appearances against him, and believe him to be the wretch he seemed knowing and feeling all this, he experienced, at first, an agony of mind which no words can describe, and walked up and down the little cell in which he was locked up for the night, almost beside himself with grief.
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