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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid much stress on the genius of the sufferer, as if this idea must be one of immense solace in the present crisis.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.
-- He grinned with immense satisfac-tion.
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：
-- The moon had already sunk into an immense pile of black clouds, which lay impending above the western horizon, when they is-sued from the low and devious water-course to rise again to the light and level of the sandy but wooded plain.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
-- In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock- oranges and conch - shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, know-ingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
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：
-- said Tiare suddenly, with a smile that spread all over her immense face.
-- Nothing had prepared me for the immense surprise of these pictures in a native hut, far away from civilisation, in a fold of the mountain above Taravao.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tempests which are frequent during the seasons of the equinox, and which are so prolific in catastrophes, are above all terrible over this immense ocean, which opposes no obstacle to their fury.
-- He ate the wretched food with appetite, and washed it down with a little fresh water, drawn from the river in an immense shell.
-- The mountain was composed of two cones; the first, truncated at a height of about two thousand five hundred feet, was sustained by buttresses, which appeared to branch out like the talons of an immense claw set on the ground.
-- The sea, indeed, formed an immense circular sheet of water all around them!Perhaps, on climbing again to the summit of the cone, Cyrus Harding had had a hope of discovering some coast, some island shore, which he had not been able to perceive in the dark the evening before.
-- Over all this immense space the ocean alone was visible the island occupied the center of a circumference which appeared to be infinite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject.
-- Kit drew a long breath when he had said this, and putting his hands deep into his pockets as if there were one year's wages at least in each, looked at his mother, as though he saw through her, and down an immense perspective of sovereigns beyond.
-- 'No harm in that sir,' rejoined Brass, applying his eye to the other sleeve, and speaking in the voice of one who was contemplating an immense extent of prospect.
-- Miss Sally took another pinch, and putting her head on one side, looked at her questioner, with a curious kind of spasm about her mouth, but with a cunning aspect of immense expression.
-- This is a favourite attitude in the polite circles, and, accompanied with a graceful whistling, has been known to do immense execution.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On moonlit nights he seldom slept, because of the immense joy of life that pervaded him, and instead of sleeping, he sometimes rambled in the garden till daylight, absorbed in his thoughts and phantasies.
-- On one of the streets the driver, who was a middle-aged man with an intelligent and good-natured face, turned to Nekhludoff and pointed to an immense building going up.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of genuine, if uncivil, amusement.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.
-- On the other side of the house an immense fire had burned itself into clear embers and shed a steady, red reverberation, contrasted strongly with the mellow paleness of the moon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean.
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