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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was cruel that his extreme unhappiness should have in it something of buffoonery.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- its extreme breadth was not more than a quarter of a mile.
-- The reporter hunted again in the pockets of his trousers, waistcoat, and great-coat, and at last to Pencroft's great joy, no less to his extreme surprise, he felt a tiny piece of wood entangled in the lining of his waistcoat.
-- Pencroft, to his extreme surprise, found that the terrible storm had quite altered the aspect of the place.
-- Towards four o'clock the extreme zone of the trees had been passed.
-- The engineer and his companions, mute and motionless, surveyed for some minutes every point of the ocean, examining it to its most extreme limits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After folding and laying it down beside him, he bit the nails of all of his ten fingers with extreme voracity; and taking it up sharply, read it again.
-- Then Mr Quilp departed with the child and Kit in a boat, and the boy revenged himself by dancing on his head at intervals on the extreme verge of the wharf, during the whole time they crossed the river.
-- Not at all intimidated by this rebuff, but rather sharpened in wits and appetite, Mr Swiveller forwarded the same message to another and more distant eating-house, adding to it by way of rider that the gentleman was induced to send so far, not only by the great fame and popularity its beef had acquired, but in consequence of the extreme toughness of the beef retailed at the obdurant cook's shop, which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentlemanly food, but for any human consumption.
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- Out they came forthwith; Mr Witherden, who was short, chubby, fresh-coloured, brisk, and pompous, leading the old lady with extreme politeness, and the father and son following them, arm in arm.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, against marrying Missy in particular, was, first, the extreme probability of his finding a girl of much better qualities than Missy, and, consequently, more worthy of him; and, second, Missy was twenty-seven years old and had probably loved other men before him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
-- And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light all reinforced the theory of an extreme sensitiveness of the retina.
-- "Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington!Here, apparently, was the Pal脙娄ontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.
-- It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.
-- At last, with a swallow or two, he spoke, his face still wearing the same expression of extreme perplexity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the impossibility of forming an opinion, I jumped from one extreme to the other.
-- We are old friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born and cemented amidst extreme dangers.
-- Half an hour had already passed without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light.
-- The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story.
-- "Nevertheless, Captain, you possess an extreme rapidity of movement, which does not agree well with the power of electricity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strange, transfixed, rudimentary face of the woman again reminded Gerald of a f脜聯tus, it was also rather wonderful, conveying the suggestion of the extreme of physical sensation, beyond the limits of mental consciousness.
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