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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The angles of the declivities widened and the ledges narrowed, and frightful precipices met their gaze.
-- They had a frightful height to climb yet to gain the topmost peaks.
-- But even Thalcave did not catch the words, for his voice was drowned in the frightful uproar made by the wolves, who had dashed off at a tremendous speed on the track of the horse.
-- A frightful death was in store for them, since they must either be devoured by the fire or by the caimans.
-- The chief danger of their frightful passage was thus removed, and the Major went the length of saying, that he should not be surprised if they were saved after all.
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：
-- That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
-- Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw Mrs. Hall fall down and Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tumbling over her, and then they heard the frightful screams of Millie, who, emerging suddenly from the kitchen at the noise of the tumult, had come upon the headless stranger from behind.
-- Everybody, it seemed, was being hit all at once, and Sandy Wadgers, knowing as ever and his wits sharpened by a frightful blow in the nose, reopened the door and led the rout.
-- He heard a frightful struggle in the passage of the inn, and his decision was made.
-- I had to do my work under frightful disadvantages.
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：
-- Among the savages a frightful stillness succeeded the explosion, which had just been heard bursting from the bowels of the rock.
-- When the fact was generally understood, the savages raised a frightful yell, which declared the extent of their disap-pointment.
-- They looked in vain for the form they had so recently seen stalking along in silent shores, while a low and regular wash of the little waves, by announcing that the waters were not yet subsided, furnished a frightful memorial of the deed of blood they had just witnessed.
-- A frightful change had also occurred in the season.
-- The sudden and terrible interruption caused Duncan to start from his seat, uncon-scious of everything but the effect produced by so frightful a cry.
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：
-- Oh, if you knew the frightful anguish in my heart."
-- What had happened could only be a dream, a frightful dream; and when he turned the key and opened the door, he would see her bending slightly over the table in the gracious attitude of the woman in Chardin's Benedicite, which always seemed to him so exquisite.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frightful indeed was the situation of these unfortunate men.
-- At eight o'clock Neb had not appeared, but there was no doubt that the frightful weather alone hindered his return, and that he must have taken refuge in some cave, to await the end of the storm or at least the return of day.
-- They little knew that sixteen days afterwards a frightful crime would be committed in Washington, and that on Good Friday Abraham Lincoln would fall by the hand of a fanatic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But night-time in this dreadful spot! night, when the smoke was changed to fire; when every chimney spirited up its flame; and places, that had been dark vaults all day, now shone red-hot, with figures moving to and fro within their blazing jaws, and calling to one another with hoarse cries night, when the noise of every strange machine was aggravated by the darkness; when the people near them looked wilder and more savage; when bands of unemployed labourers paraded the roads, or clustered by torch-light round their leaders, who told them, in stern language, of their wrongs, and urged them on to frightful cries and threats; when maddened men, armed with sword and firebrand, spurning the tears and prayers of women who would restrain them, rushed forth on errands of terror and destruction, to work no ruin half so surely as their own night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins (for contagious disease and death had been busy with the living crops); when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake night, when some called for bread, and some for drink to drown their cares, and some with tears, and some with staggering feet, and some with bloodshot eyes, went brooding home night, which, unlike the night that Heaven sends on earth, brought with it no peace, nor quiet, nor signs of blessed sleep who shall tell the terrors of the night to the young wandering child!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His sadness increased as the lawyer related with so much pleasure the frightful stories of the prevailing wickedness.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness.
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