alarming是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 警告的，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：
-- It was certainly a very alarming situation to be in.
-- Their own situation meantime was much more alarming than his.
-- In this alarming situation and amid dreadful alternations of hope and despair, the 12th of December passed away, and the ensuing night, John Mangles never left his post, not even to take food.
-- Still, the position of things filled him with anxiety; but, for fear of alarming Glenarvan, he spoke only to Paganel or the Major.
-- The English newspapers began to notice these alarming symptoms, and the government became seriously disturbed at these ‘Land League' proceedings.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Will it be believed that, after Aglaya's alarming words, an ineradicable conviction had taken possession of his mind that, however he might try to avoid this vase next day, he must certainly break it?
-- However, the invalid to his immense satisfaction ended by seriously alarming the prince.
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：
-- Although his alarming com-munication was not received without much secret terror by the listeners, his earnest and impressive manner, aided per-haps by the nature of the danger, succeeded in bracing their nerves to undergo some unlooked-for and unusual trial.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
-- "For, I really am not," he added, with his son's smile, "an alarming personage."
-- I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I say, gracefully departed, because it was graceful to retire without alarming a lady.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Laurence looked so alarming and spoke so sharply that Jo would have gladly run away, if she could, but she was perched aloft on the steps, and he stood at the foot, a lion in the path, so she had to stay and brave it out.
-- While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promis-cuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These preliminaries adjusted, Mr. Sikes proceeded to drink brandy at a furious rate, and to flourish the crowbar in an alarming manner; yelling forth, at the same time, most unmusical snatches of song, mingled with wild execrations.
-- 'There is nothing very alarming in his appearance.
-- A medical practitioner, who resided on the spot, was in constant attendance upon her; and after first seeing the patient, he had taken Mrs. Maylie aside, and pronounced her disorder to be one of a most alarming nature.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall not say you are mistaken,' he replied, 'because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquain-tance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.'
-- But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham when she read with somewhat clearer at-tention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
-- It was to this effect: 'Since writing the above, dearest Lizzy, something has occurred of a most unexpected and serious nature; but I am afraid of alarming you be assured that we are all well.
-- A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With almost every other man in the world, it would be an alarming prospect; but Edward's affection and constancy nothing can deprive me of I know."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, George," said another rotund citizen, whose avoirdupois made necessary an almost alarming display of starched shirt bosom, "how goes it with you?"
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