utmost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最远的, 最大的, 极度的，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a soli-tary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel perfectly sensible of its be-ing exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself. But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheer-ful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
-- Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear and here would be a ninth and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had her utmost thoughts in this direction been distinctly worded (and by herself they never were), they would only have amounted to such a matter as that she felt her impulses to be pleasanter guides than her discretion.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such natures feel but little affection for those who are nearest to them; they keep their kindness for remoter circles of acquaintance, and show most to those who dwell on its utmost limits.
-- We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
-- One was old, with 126 Frankensteinsilver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.
-- The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
-- As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery.
-- By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which some-times desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He always referred to the soldiers as "our brave boys" and "our heroes in gray" and did it in such a way as toconvey the utmost in insult.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like "sulks."
-- On my turning round, they all looked at me with the utmost contempt, and, as I went out, I heard Sarah Pocket say, "Well I am sure!What next!"
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
-- Thus it was:--Again and again and again, my sister had traced upon the slate, a character that looked like a curious T, and then with the utmost eagerness had called our attention to it as something she particularly wanted.
-- The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
-- I was in the utmost as-tonishment, and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground.
-- '4th, As he walks the said roads, he shall take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving 45subjects, their horses, or carriages, nor take any of our sub-jects into his hands without their own consent.
-- '6th, He shall be our ally against our enemies in the is-land of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now preparing to invade us.
-- I walked with the utmost circumspection, to avoid treading on any stragglers who might remain in the streets, although the orders were very strict, that all people should keep in their houses, at their own peril.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A moment and she would be past all help, let the whole world wake and come about her with its utmost power.
-- But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
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