extremely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 极端， 极其， 非常，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the ne- cessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself.
-- I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an Eng-lish mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
-- The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and sev-en inches wide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- You are extremely deficient in your facts.
-- Mr. Gradgrind was extremely discomfited by this unexpected question.
-- He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was extremely anxious to hear if this strange and inexplicable sound was likely to be renewed!A whole quarter of an hour elapsed in painful expectation.
-- The air is extremely heavy; the sea is comparatively calm.
-- We at last reached a spot where the shore became extremely narrow.
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：
-- But Clifford was really extremely shy and self-conscious now he was lamed.
-- Connie thought, how extremely like all the rest of the classes the lower classes sounded.
-- To find there, what he had forgotten during his absence of years, a pet-tiness and a vulgarity of manner extremely distasteful.
-- Nero's slaves were extremely little different from our colliers or the Ford mo-tor-car workmen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery.
-- As it was, Mr Barnacle, finding his gentlemanly residence extremely inconvenient and extremely dear, always laid it, as a public servant, at the door of the country, and adduced it as another instance of the country's parsimony.
-- 'So he went,' said the gentleman with the gun-barrel, who was an extremely deliberate speaker, 'down to his cousin's place, and took the Dog with him by rail.
-- She imparted to this sentiment, in itself almost Solomonic, so extremely injurious and personal a character by levelling it straight at the visitor's head, that it became necessary to lead Mr F.'s Aunt from the room.
-- Mr Meagles (who had been extremely solicitous to know how his uncle and aunt were) begged him to conduct Mrs Meagles to the dining-room.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her older sisters were very fine young ladies, and one was engaged, which was extremely interesting and roman-tic, Meg thought.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
-- Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whales for forty-eight months think they have done extremely well, and thank God, if at last they carry home the oil of forty fish.
-- why that's but no; a very tidy, and, I may say, an extremely gentlemanlike sort of business thou art in here, carpenter; or would'st thou rather work in clay?
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