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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began with great earnestness to entreat her to refrain from visiting the sick-chamber again, for the present to entreat her to promise him not to ven-ture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion; and though she tried to laugh it off and bring the subject back into its proper course, there was no putting an end to his extreme solicitude about her.
-- His extreme attention to my mother wanting her to sit in the vicarage pew, that she might hear the better, for my mother is a little deaf, you know it is not much, but she does not hear quite quick.
-- I have no reason to think ill of her not the least except that such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the extreme summit, where the ends of the two converging hedges of which we have spoken were stopped short by meeting the brow of the chalk-pit, he saw the younger dog standing against the sky dark and motionless as Napoleon at St. Helena.
-- An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest temerity with a manner of extreme discretion.
-- They now advanced with extreme caution.
-- Though the overshadowing trees and the approach of eventide enveloped them in gloom, Bathsheba could see plainly enough to discern the extreme poverty of the woman's garb, and the sadness of her face.
-- At first Bathsheba assented with a mien of indifference to his proposition that they should go on to the church at once with their burden; but immediately afterwards, following Gabriel to the gate, she swerved to the extreme of solicitousness on Fanny's account, and desired that the girl might be brought into the house.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowl-edge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.
-- Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every ar-tery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
-- We returned again, with torches; for I could not rest, when I thought that my sweet boy had lost himself, and was ex-posed to all the damps and dews of night; Elizabeth also suffered extreme anguish.
-- She fainted, and was restored with extreme difficulty.
-- On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
-- The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me.
-- "Tell him to take his witness away directly," said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, "and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that."
-- Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our dwelling-place, and having incidentally shown this tendency to call me "sir," Joe, being invited to sit down to table, looked all round the room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,--as if it were only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a resting place,--and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals.
-- As I passed him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reader may remember, that when I signed those ar-ticles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.
-- I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them.
-- othing but an extreme love of truth could have hin-Ndered me from concealing this part of my story.
-- He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his de-tractors reported, 'he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;' neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposi-tion in the mathematics.
-- Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon dis-tinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I said, Miss;' here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; 'I said it was nothing.'
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