tremendous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 极大的, 巨大的; 非常的, 极好的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A tremendous family to provide for.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The keeper of the wine-shop stopped to strike the wall with his hand, and mutter a tremendous curse.
-- He had sunk in her arms, and his face dropped on her breast: a sight so touching, yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it, that the two beholders covered their faces.
-- Among the lookers-on there was the same expression in all quarters of the court; insomuch, that a great majority of the foreheads there, might have been mirrors reflecting the witness, when the Judge looked up from his notes to glare at that tremendous heresy about George Washington.
-- A tremendous roar arose from the throat of Saint Antoine, and a forest of naked arms strug-gled in the air like shrivelled branches of trees in a winter wind: all the fingers convulsively clutching at every weap-on or semblance of a weapon that was thrown up from the depths below, no matter how far off.
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:
-- said one of the men, who panting brought him a tremendous pile of papers.
-- There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And round about the village, the living wheat, arched above by tremendous clouds.
-- Upon this seedy gaiety entered a splendor, a tremendous black- bearded personage, magnificent of glacial shirt-bosom, vast of brow, wild-eyed with genius or with madness.
-- She came in serenely, with coffee and a tremendous Swedish coffee-ring voluptuous with raisins and glistening brown sugar, and she had them talking, almost easily, about the coldness of winter and the value of Fords when into the midst of all this brightness slid Mr. Andrew Jackson Tozer, and they drooped again to politeness.
-- In the beer-garden the tremendous Sondelius discoursed of the Cosmos Club, Halle's investigation of infant mortality, the suitability of combining benedictine and apple-jack, Biarritz, Lord Haldane, the Doane-Buckley method of milk examination, George Gissing, and homard thermidor.
-- With tremendous craft he demanded that instead of their dining in her Jacobean hall of state, she come with him on his own sort of party.
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:
-- I fell to jeering in the coarsest way at all such propaganda and efforts to convert me; Parasha came on to the scene again, and not she alone; in fact there was a tremendous to-do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
-- Be this as it may, I wellremember the tremendous visages with which we used to go tochurch, and the changed air of the place.
-- Here, as I sat looking at the parcels, packages, and books, andinhaling the smell of stables (ever since associated with thatmorning), a procession of most tremendous considerations beganto march through my mind.
-- I recollect oneyoung fellow- a tinker, I suppose, from his wallet and brazier- whohad a woman with him, and who faced about and stared at methus; and then roared to me in such a tremendous voice to comeback, that I halted and looked round.
-- Though she was just as sharp that day, as on the day before, andwas in and out about the donkeys just as often, and was throwninto a tremendous state of indignation, when a young man, goingby, ogled Janet at a window (which was one of the gravestmisdemeanours that could be committed against my aunt'sdignity), she seemed to me to command more of my respect, if notless of my fear.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Reversals of this kind, strange deformities, tremendous paralyses, are often seen to be inflicted by trade upon edifices either individual or in the aggregate as streets and towns which were originally planned for pleasure alone.
-- The result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is sometimes as tremendous as the cause itself is absurdly minute.
-- With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
-- Bathsheba flung down the brush, crook, and empty hive, pulled the skirt of her dress tightly round her ankles in a tremendous flurry, and as well as she could slid down the ladder.
-- Just as Bathsheba was pouring out a cup of tea, their ears were greeted by the firing of a cannon, followed by what seemed like a tremendous blowing of trumpets, in the front of the house.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.
扩展阅读: