extreme是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 极度的, 极端的; 尽头的, 末端的 n. 极端, 过分，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voice of the submissive man who had spo-ken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission.
-- Afraid, in her extreme perturbation, of the loneliness of the deserted rooms, and of half-imagined faces peep-ing from behind every open door in them, Miss Pross got a basin of cold water and began laving her eyes, which were swollen and red.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
-- The principal qualities in Stepan Arkadyevitch which had gained him this universal respect in the service consisted, in the first place, of his extreme indulgence for others, founded on a consciousness of his own shortcomings; secondly, of his perfect liberalism--not the liberalism he read of in the papers, but the liberalism that was in his blood, in virtue of which he treated all men perfectly equally and exactly the same, whatever their fortune or calling might be; and thirdly--the most important point--his complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, in consequence of which he was never carried away, and never made mistakes.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- Oblonsky had more than once experienced this extreme sense of aloofness, instead of intimacy, coming on after dinner, and he knew what to do in such cases.
-- She was afraid that her daughter, who had at one time, as she fancied, a feeling for Levin, might, from extreme sense of honor, refuse Vronsky, and that Levin's arrival might generally complicate and delay the affair so near being concluded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The detective rushed forward with every appearance of extreme surprise, and exclaimed, "You here, on the Rangoon?"
-- "By going to Nagasaki, at the extreme south of Japan, or even to Shanghai, which is only eight hundred miles from here.
-- From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He summoned forth London laboratories, dinners on frosty evenings in Stockholm, walks on the Pincio with sunset behind the dome of San Pietro, extreme danger and overpowering disgust from excreta-smeared garments in an epidemic at Marseilles.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He overtook the girl at the seat, but, on reaching it, she dropped down on it, in the corner; she let her head sink on the back of the seat and closed her eyes, ap-parently in extreme exhaustion.
-- You may rest assured, Amalia Ludwigovna 芒聙娄' All this was uttered with extreme rapidity, getting quick-er and quicker, but a cough suddenly cut short Katerina Ivanovna's eloquence.
-- He spoke with marked sympathy, but with the reserve and extreme seriousness of a young doctor at an important consultation.
-- Razumihin soon de-tected signs of extreme poverty in their belongings.
-- 'Excuse me, please,' he began, affecting extreme embarrassment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of myaunt's manner; so he made her a little bow, and gave her a littlesmile, to mollify her.
-- The completion ofthe preparations for my breakfast, by relieving the fire, gave hersuch extreme joy that she laughed aloud- and a very unmelodiouslaugh she had, I must say.
-- But let him go to which extreme hemay, sir, there's a young lady in both of 'em.'
-- He had a livelyperception of his own unfortunate state, and was always rubbinghis eyes with the sleeve of his jacket, or stooping to blow his noseon the extreme corner of a little pocket-handkerchief, which henever would take completely out of his pocket, but alwayseconomised and secreted.
-- If Mr. T. should ever reply to it (which I cannot but feel to be mostimprobable), a letter addressed to M. E., Post Office, Canterbury,will be fraught with less painful consequences than any addressedimmediately to one, who subscribes herself, in extreme distress,'Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The advantage of the match I felt to be all on her side; and had not the smallest doubt (nor have I now) that there would be a general cry-out 74 Emmaupon her extreme good luck.
-- The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
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