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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My blood curdled when I saw enormous antennae blocking my road, or some frightful claw closing with a noise in the shadow of some cavity.
-- But this obstacle could not stop Captain Nemo: he hurled himself against it with frightful violence.
-- The Nautilus entered the brittle mass like a wedge, and split it with frightful crackings.
-- All at once, carried away by its frightful overcharge, the Nautilus sank like a bullet under the waters, that is to say, it fell as if it was in a vacuum.
-- The Nautilus went at a frightful pace, forty miles an hour.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The locomotive, as if wanting to see what could be done, put on the brakes, and back came the trucks rebounding on the iron buffers, striking like horrible cymbals, clashing nearer and nearer in frightful strident concussions.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I had the misfortune to scream in my sleep, owing to a frightful nightmare.
-- We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.
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