overwhelming是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 势不可挡的， 压倒的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aglaya gazed at him for some seconds with precisely the same composure and calm astonishment as she had shown a little while before, when the prince handed her the note, and it appeared that this calm surprise and seemingly ab-solute incomprehension of what was said to her, were more terribly overwhelming to Gania than even the most plainly expressed disdain would have been.
-- What was there so overwhelming about me?'
-- Oh, it inspired suffering, grief, overwhelming grief of the soul!A poignant, agonizing memory swept over the prince's heart.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I realised I was invisible and inaudible, that overwhelming forces had their grip on me.
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：
-- Immediately conscious how unavailing any struggle against such an overwhelming force must prove, he submit-ted to his fate, encouraging his gentle companions by a few low and tender assurances, that the natives seldom failed to threaten more than they performed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For four days he tramped, swam in cold brooks, slept under trees or in straw stacks, and came back (but by day) with enough reserve of energy to support him till his experiment should have turned from overwhelming glory into sane and entertaining routine.
-- When he took up diffusion problems, he began to develop his own apparatus, and whether it was from inborn ingenuity or merely from a fury of labor, he was so competent that he won from Terry the almost overwhelming praise: "Why, that's not so darn' bad, Slim!"
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：
-- The triumphant sense of se-curity, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or sur-mises, without doubts and without questioning.
-- A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred.
-- This certificate of honour was obviously intended now to prove Katerina Iva-novna's right to open a boarding-school; but she had armed herself with it chiefly with the object of overwhelming 'those two stuck-up draggletails' if they came to the din-ner, and proving incontestably that Katerina Ivanovna was of the most noble, 'she might even say aristocratic family, a colonel's daughter and was far superior to certain adven-turesses who have been so much to the fore of late.'
-- He moved away at last, not remem-bering where he was; but when he got into the middle of the square an emotion suddenly came over him, overwhelming him body and mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Micawber's 154difficulties are almost overwhelming at present,' said Mrs.Micawber; 'and whether it is possible to bring him through them, Idon't know.
-- Where, for the first time in manyrevolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilitieswas not proclaimed, from day to day, by importunate voicesdeclining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on thedoor for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service ofprocess was not required, and detainers were merely lodged at thegate!Gentlemen,' said Mr. Mi- cawber, 'when the shadow of thatiron-work on the summit of the brick structure has been reflectedon the gravel of the Parade, I have seen my children thread the 652mazes of the intricate pattern, avoiding the dark marks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He passed by with an utter and overwhelming sensation of ignorance, shyness, and doubt.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been pro-gressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
-- 159 ''I am about to undertake that task; and it is on that ac-count that I feel so many overwhelming terrors.
-- But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event?
-- The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Howcould anything but overwhelming victory come to a Cause as just and right as theirs?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was getting cold; yet the overwhelming inertia of her inner resentment kept her there as if paralysed.
-- It is the overwhelming pressure of environment.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Made giddy by the turbulent irruption of this multitude of staring faces into her cell of years, by the confusing sensation of being in the air, and the yet more confusing sensation of being afoot, by the unexpected changes in half-remembered objects, and the want of likeness between the controllable pictures her imagination had often drawn of the life from which she was secluded and the overwhelming rush of the reality, she held her way as if she were environed by distracting thoughts, rather than by external humanity and observation.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- gasped Beth, holding onto Jo and feeling as if she should tumble down, it was such an overwhelming thing altogether.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
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