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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last they were under the huge arch of the station, in the tremendous shadow of the town.
-- But also, she knew what he was unconscious of, his tremendous power of understanding, of apprehending her living motion.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And what was it that had suggested the tremendous tumult?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Nothing more, sir' With that they closed the tremendous dialog by frowning mutually.
-- It did not appear, however, that there was anything remarkably tremendous about this strange Barbara, who having lived a very quiet life, blushed very much and was quite as embarrassed and uncertain what she ought to say or do, as Kit could possibly be.
-- 'I haven't seen such a storm as this,' said a sharp cracked voice of most disagreeable quality, when a tremendous peal of thunder had died away, 'since the night when old Luke Withers won thirteen times running on the red.
-- There was the intolerable brown head-dress there was the green gown there, in short, was Miss Sally Brass, arrayed in all her charms, and more tremendous than ever.
-- 'Why, instead of my friend's bursting into tears when he knew who Fred was, embracing him kindly, and telling him that he was his grandfather, or his grandmother in disguise (which we fully expected), he flew into a tremendous passion; called him all manner of names; said it was in a great measure his fault that little Nell and the old gentleman had ever been brought to poverty; didn't hint at our taking anything to drink; and and in short rather turned us out of the room than otherwise.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.
-- Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.
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