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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,--or what we couldn't--in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about.
-- And now, old chap," said Joe, conveying to me a sensation, first of burning and then of freezing, for I felt as if that familiar expression were applied to Miss Havisham,--"and now, old chap, may we do our duty!May you and me do our duty, both on us, by one and another, and by them which your liberal present--have-conweyed--to be--for the satisfaction of mind-of--them as never--" here Joe showed that he felt he had fallen into frightful difficulties, until he triumphantly rescued himself with the words, "and from myself far be it!"
-- He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument."
-- Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a frightful perspiration, was trying to get himself out of his princely sables.
-- I was looking at her with pleasure and admiration, when suddenly the growl swelled into a roar again, and a frightful bumping noise was heard above, as if a giant with a wooden leg were trying to bore it through the ceiling to come at us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by cham-bermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A frightful recollection came to my mind.
-- For several days after our memorable halt, the slopes became more rapid--some were even of a most frightful character--almost vertical, so that we were forever going down into the solid interior mass.
-- Soon the rapidity of the descent began to assume frightful proportions; and menaced a fearful fall.
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：
-- 'It's a frightful pity we can't go straight off!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the day's unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on trees for many miles; woods of olives; white villages and towns on hill-sides, lovely without, but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of beautiful forms; vast piles of building mouldering to dust; hanging-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, with the lizards running into and out of every chink; beggars of all sorts everywhere: pitiful, picturesque, hungry, merry; children beggars and aged beggars.
-- Before the frightful results of this desperate action, Mr Pancks himself recoiled in consternation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped and swore astern in the most frightful manner.
-- Didn't that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man's hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on it?
-- At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he turned upon his back a corpse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
-- cried the girl, whose passion was frightful to see.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind.
-- But there was nothing like this appeared; but as we made nearer and near-er the shore, the land looked more frightful than the sea.
-- The case was thus: As I was busy in the inside, behind my tent, just at the entrance into my cave, I was terribly fright-ed with a most dreadful, surprising thing indeed; for all on a sudden I found the earth come crumbling down from the roof of my cave, and from the edge of the hill over my head, and two of the posts I had set up in the cave cracked in a frightful manner.
-- Have I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from sickness - from the most distressed condition that could be, and that was so frightful to me?
-- By this time I had got at a frightful distance from the island, and had the least cloudy or hazy weather intervened, I had been un-done another way, too; for I had no compass on board, and should never have known how to have steered towards the island, if I had but once lost sight of it; but the weather con-tinuing clear, I applied myself to get up my mast again, and spread my sail, standing away to the north as much as pos-sible, to get out of the current.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her.
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