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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He founded the city of St. Philip, but the extreme severity of winter decimated the inhabitants, and those who had struggled through the cold died subsequently of starvation.
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
-- This time the shock had been one of extreme violence.
-- Thalcave did his part by capturing a NANDOU, a species of ostrich, remarkable for its extreme swiftness.
-- After making a short ascent up the sierra, they reached the postern gate, so carelessly guarded by an Argentine sentinel, that they passed through without difficulty, a circumstance which betokened extreme negligence or extreme security.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
-- The first impression left by Mrs. Lyons was one of- extreme beauty.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed the red-nosed passenger, with extreme satisfaction, 'and that he has precious little in the luggage van! though of course poverty is no crime we must remember that!'
-- 'I didn't say a word, but with extreme courtesy, I may say with most refined courtesy, I reached my finger and thumb over towards the poodle, took it up delicately by the nape of the neck, and chucked it out of the window, after the cigar.
-- He was in his shirt-sleeves, on account of the extreme heat, and he seemed to have just reached the peroration of his speech, and was im-pressively beating his breast.
-- When his attack was over, and the prince reflected on his symptoms, he used to say to himself: 'These moments, short as they are, when I feel such extreme consciousness of myself, and consequently more of life than at other times, are due only to the disease to the sudden rupture of nor-mal conditions.
-- Ivan Fedorovitch, who really understood nothing of what was going on, felt indignant at the sight of these youths, and would have interfered in some way had it not been for the extreme interest shown by his wife in the af-fair.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ought to be going about imploring aid from all the princes of the Achaeans, for we are in extreme danger.'
-- Hector did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the river Scamander, where the carnage was thickest and the war-cry loudest round Nestor and brave Idomeneus.
-- Then Cebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion said to Hector from his place beside him, 'Hector, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in pell-mell rout, they and their horses.
-- As he spoke the Trojans were plunged in extreme and ungovernable grief; for Sarpedon, alien though he was, had been one of the main stays of their city, both as having much people with him, and himself the foremost among them all.
-- When among the body of his men, he looked around for mighty Ajax son of Telamon, and pres-ently saw him on the extreme left of the fight, cheering on his men and exhorting them to keep on fighting, for Phoe-bus Apollo had spread a great panic among them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wanted it was the one thing I wanted to find out the extreme limit of plasticity in a living shape.'
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：
-- At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable preci-pice.
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：
-- With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
-- In the first place his red beard, ragged and untrimmed, hid much of his face, and his hair was long; but the most surprising change in him was his extreme thinness.
-- She had abandoned the safe shelter of her husband's protection and the comfortable ease of a well-provided establishment for what she could not but see was an extreme hazard.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was because of her extreme anxiety to do all that was required that brought on the trouble.
-- "You're very kind," said Carrie, touched by the agent's extreme affability.
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