frightful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的； 讨厌的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
-- To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.
-- It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old insti-tution, very humanising and softening to behold in action; also, for extensive transactions in blood-money, another fragment of ancestral wisdom, systematically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes that could be committed under Heaven.
-- 'And has left me,' answered the nephew, 'bound to a sys-tem that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain.'
-- The frightful deeds that were to be soon done, were probably unimagined at that time in the brains of the doers.
-- 'If it had pleased GOD to put it in the hard heart of either 473of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife so much as to let me know by a word whether alive or dead I might have thought that He had not quite abandoned them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this Stokes, rather a bounder, a frightful bore, fancied himself as an amateur bacteriologist!It was a bit thick to have him creeping about the docks, catching rats, making cultures from the bellies of their fleas, and barging in--sandy-headed and red- faced, thin and unpleasant--to insist that they bore plague.
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 chanced to be in a frightful den I like my dens dirty it was a dance, so called, and there was a cancan such as I never saw in my day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I happened to glance at Ham, thenlooking out to sea upon the distant light, and a frightful thoughtcame into my mind- not that his face was angry, for it was not; Irecall nothing but an expression of stern determination in it- that ifever he encountered Steerforth, he would kill him.
-- He was mad for the moment; tearing out his hair,beating his head, trying to force me from him, and to force himselffrom me, not answering a word, not looking at or seeing any one;blindly striving for he knew not what, his face all staring anddistorted- a frightful spectacle.
-- This was a frightful beginning.
-- he cried, with a frightful face.
-- Her eyes gleamed like fire asshe confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And then their uncle comes in, and tosses them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way!'
-- It was the very event to engage those who talk most, the young and the low; and all the youth and ser-vants in the place were soon in the happiness of frightful news.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange and harrow-ing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it thus!
-- It advanced from behind the moun-tains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
-- My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with ir-regular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
-- I trembled from head to foot; I felt a presentiment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peasants who dwelt in a cottage not far from mine; but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.
-- This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me forever, I shudder to reflect on it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now he had spoken the frightful words!Goose bumps came outall over her and fear swamped her, a superstitious fear she could not combat with reason.
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