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：
-- Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.
-- 'Go,' said the Huron, suppressing the alarming exhibi-tion in an instant, in a death-like calmness of countenance; 'go to the dark-haired daughter, and say, 'Magua waits to speak' The father will remember what the child promises.'
-- Accordingly, this alarming annunciation was re-ceived, as Magua intended, with manifest disapprobation, if not with alarm.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon com-ets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
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：
-- There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That very night, Mr Richard was seized with an alarming illness, and in twenty-four hours was stricken with a raging fever.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had an alarming way now when he was drunk of drawing his cutlass and laying it bare before him on the table.
-- If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All at once from the dark line of the horizon whither it retired to gain its momentum, the monster rushed suddenly towards the Abraham Lincoln with alarming rapidity, stopped suddenly about twenty feet from the hull, and died out not diving under the water, for its brilliancy did not abate but suddenly, and as if the source of this brilliant emanation was exhausted.
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