gross是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 粗俗的; 显著的; (草木) 茂密的; (人) 过胖的; 总的; 毛的; vt. 计得(毛收入)，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：
-- 'Or that he should be as gross and churlish as you!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can't understand how they can fall into such a gross mistake.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the papers had an innocent squib: Probably a certain amount of hypocrisy is inevitable in us sinful human critters, but when a public official tries to pose as a saint while indulging in every vice, and tries to cover up his gross ignorance and incompetence by pulling political wires, and makes a holy show of himself by not even doing a first-class job of wire- pulling, then even the cussedest of us old scoundrels begins to holler for the meat-ax.
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 shall have the honour of visit-ing you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview as he offered me a gross and un-precedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explana-tion upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must not be supposed (or it would be a gross injustice to Mr Quilp) that he was tortured by any disinterested anxiety on behalf of either.
-- 'But I would have you know, Miss Edwards,' resumed the governess in a tone of increased severity, 'that you cannot be permitted if it be only for the sake of preserving a proper example and decorum in this establishment that you cannot be permitted, and that you shall not be permitted, to fly in the face of your superiors in this exceedingly gross manner.
-- It was not badly named in one respect, being in truth a particularly little Bethel a Bethel of the smallest dimensions with a small number of small pews, and a small pulpit, in which a small gentleman (by trade a Shoemaker, and by calling a Divine) was delivering in a by no means small voice, a by no means small sermon, judging of its dimensions by the condition of his audience, which, if their gross amount were but small, comprised a still smaller number of hearers, as the majority were slumbering.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, he might have gone the bad road and given his eyes to unlawfulness entirely yes, gross unlawfulness, so to say it."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That did not solve the question, but it was a step toward its solution; it was a transition from a grosser to a less gross form of ownership of man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her moretimidly gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice done him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Or even," said he, "if you was helped to knocking her up a new chain for the front door,--or say a gross or two of shark-headed screws for general use,--or some light fancy article, such as a toasting-fork when she took her muffins,--or a gridiron when she took a sprat or such like--""I don't mean any present at all, Joe," I interposed.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That our institutions of government and law were plain-ly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence in virtue; because reason alone is sufficient to govern a -rational creature; which was, therefore, a character we had no pretence to challenge, even from the account I had given of my own people; although he manifestly perceived, that, in order to favour them, I had concealed many particulars, and often said the thing which was not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mere verbal statement of the gross amount is all I shall ha all I shall require.'
-- He then commits that gross outrage upon our feelings, which he never could or would have committed but for the delight he took in exposing us; and then we are to be demeaned for the service of his friends!Why, I don't wonder at this Mr Gowan's conduct towards you.
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：
-- He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other; and, for a few moments, she flat-tered herself that her wishes did not err.
-- Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of SOME amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bing-ley, was incomprehensible.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alas!there the sor-ry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for it; and often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco-pipes; or for a hand-mill to grind my corn; nay, I would have given it all for a sixpen-ny-worth of turnip and carrot seed out of England, or for a handful of peas and beans, and a bottle of ink.
-- But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nobody knows us down there," said one, a gentleman whose face was a slight improvement over gross ignorance and sensuality.
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