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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She met my difficulty with the utmost readiness.
-- Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course it's all an ideal, and in the 'poor knight' that spirit reached the utmost limit of asceticism.
-- Everyone, especially the Burdovsky party, listened with the utmost curiosity.
-- The gesture took Evgenie Pavlovitch by surprise, but with the utmost gravity he touched the hand that was offered him in token of forgiveness.
-- The prince finished her speech for her with the utmost com-posure.
-- 'It seems to me that you have been too painfully impressed by the news of what happened to your good benefactor,' said the old dignitary, kindly, and with the utmost calmness of demeanour.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a lion fastens on the fawns of a hind and crushes them in his great jaws, robbing them of their tender life while he on his way back to his lair the hind can do nothing for them even though she be close by, for she is in an agony of fear, and flies through the thick forest, sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster so, no man of the Trojans could help Isus and Antiphus, for they were themselves flying panic before the Argives.
-- Do your very utmost and call all my people together.'
-- Fool; Hector and his fleet horses were ever straining their utmost to defend them.
-- Fear fell upon Hector as he be-held him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted af-ter him at his utmost speed.
-- It was when they were doing the last part of the course on their way back towards the sea that their pace was strained to the utmost and it was seen what each could do.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost 脙漏clat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So nervous was I that I controlled an impulse to headlong flight with the utmost difficulty.
-- I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save my-self from the suspicion of insanity.
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：
-- Small as it was, this uncommon engine had excited the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials were seen to handle it, not only without fear, but with the utmost familiarity.
-- Though he may understand it, he affects, like most of his people, to be ignorant of the English; and least of all will he condescend to speak it, now that the war de-mands the utmost exercise of his dignity.
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- When within a few yards of the cover, he fitted an arrow to his bow with the utmost care, while the antlers moved, as if their owner snuffed an enemy in the tainted air.
-- 'I will do my utmost to see both these conditions ful-filled.'
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.
-- Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours.
-- cried Mrs. Strickland, with the utmost astonishment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is a jolly old grandfather I say it with the utmost respect and here is a wild, young grandson.
扩展阅读：