immense是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 广大的, 巨大的，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：
-- In his eyes the interests of his country were not identified with those of the Anglo-Saxons, and to give scope for personal development, he resolved to found an immense Scotch colony on one of the ocean continents.
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- Cloud-capped mountains appeared, their heads white with eternal snows, and their feet hid in immense forests.
-- Paganel and Robert, both alike children, though of different growth, were wild with delight as they inserted their heads in the national PONCHO, an immense plaid with a hole in center, and their legs in high leather boots.
-- About two o'clock they came to an immense barren plain, without a sign of vegetation.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is evidently a case of extraordinary interest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost at the same moment, Afanasy Ivanovitch Totski, a man of immense wealth, high connections, and good standing, an-nounced his intention of marrying.
-- There was a suggestion of immense pride and disdain in the face almost of hatred, and at the same time something confid-ing and very full of simplicity.
-- I tell you he is a man of immense wealth as I know for a fact; and he has further expectations from his uncle.
-- These are they who are generally known as 'commonplace people,' and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they had known the vari-ous tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, 'I told you so.'
-- 'But, my dear girl, it's an immense house, and will take a power of money to keep it in order.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn's horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.
-- Nor is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front.
-- And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
-- But, with a full grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whale's head embraces nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend such a burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers' scales.
-- As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point of pervading dignity.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- He chatted on at a great rate, asking questions, explaining things about himself, telling her what a good restaurant it was, until the waiter returned with an immense tray, bearing the hot savoury dishes which had been ordered.
-- As he went, Carrie came out, and, seeing an immense basket of flowers being hurried down the aisle toward her she waited.
-- Pompous doormen in immense coats, shiny brass belts and buttons, waited in front of expensive salesrooms.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An immense Serpent lay stretched across the road--a Serpent with a bright green skin, fiery eyes which glowed and burned, and a pointed tail that smoked like a chimney.
-- Poor Pinocchio!The sight of that monster frightened him almost to death!He tried to swim away from him, to change his path, to escape, but that immense mouth kept coming nearer and nearer.
-- They climbed up the throat of the monster till they came to that immense open mouth.
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