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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hooked himself now, as the tremendous jerk he gave the cable proved, and the sailors began to haul in the monster by means of tackle attached to the mainyard.
-- Suddenly a tremendous shock pitched them right off, and sent them rolling to the very foot of the mountain.
-- But even Thalcave did not catch the words, for his voice was drowned in the frightful uproar made by the wolves, who had dashed off at a tremendous speed on the track of the horse.
-- Five minutes afterward, and the horses were swimming; the current alone carried them along with tremendous force, and with a swiftness equal to their fastest gallop; they must have gone fully twenty miles an hour.
-- But Mulrady, seizing hold of a branch that was half-burned off, struck the monster such a tremendous blow, that it fell back into the torrent and disappeared, lashing the water with its formidable tail.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the stranger in a tremendous voice, and "Shut that door after you."
-- And even as he did so the flap of the bar was shut down and the bolt clicked, and then with a tremendous thud the catch of the door snapped and the bar- parlour door burst open.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black hesi-tated before them, and this gave the red-haired man time to come up with him and deliver a tremendous blow between the shoulder-blades.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It encountered his cranium with a tremendous crash, he was tumbled headlong into the dust, and Gunpowder, the black steed, and the goblin rider, passed by like a whirlwind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence!It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those whose gaze, from their commanding position, extended over a radius of forty miles.
-- The balloon, which had appeared as if it would never again rise, suddenly made an unexpected bound, after having been struck by a tremendous sea.
-- But the sailor had not gone fifty paces when he stopped, and again uttering a tremendous hurrah, pointed towards the angle of the cliff, "Herbert!Neb!Look!"
-- The fiber was intended to burn five and twenty minutes, and, in fact, five and twenty minutes afterwards a most tremendous explosion was heard.
-- At that, according to his usual custom, Pencroft could not reply otherwise than by a tremendous hurrah.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was disgusted with himself, surprised at his own fickleness, and full of a queer mixture of disappointment and relief that he could recover from such a tremendous blow so soon.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
-- But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
-- screamed the Gay-Header in reply, raising some old war-whoop to the skies; as every oarsman in the strained boat involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading stroke which the eager Indian gave.
-- That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a new-born child.
-- Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.
-- At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously: thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was too shrewd not to realise the tremendous mistake he had made, and appreciate that he had done well in getting where he was, and yet he could not help contrasting his present state with his former, hour after hour, and day after day.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, and luckily for him, a tremendous wave tossed him to the very spot where he wanted to be.
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