disastrous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 灾难性的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this prelude, he gave an amusing recital of his disastrous mistake in learning Spanish, and his profound study of Camoens.
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：
-- At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he took up the shield of his son Thrasymedes that was lying in his tent, all gleaming with bronze, for Thrasymedes had taken his father's shield; he grasped his redoubtable bronze-shod spear, and as soon as he was out-side saw the disastrous rout of the Achaeans who, now that their wall was overthrown, were flying pell-mell before the Trojans.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended to demand: First, that a new commission should be formed which should be empowered to investigate the condition of the native tribes on the spot; secondly, if it should appear that the condition of the native tribes actually was such as it appeared to be from the official documents in the hands of the committee, that another new scientific commission should be appointed to investigate the deplorable condition of the native tribes from the--(1) political, (2) administrative, (3) economic, (4) ethnographical, (5) material, and (6) religious points of view; thirdly, that evidence should be required from the rival department of the measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were now placed; and fourthly and finally, that that department explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence before the committee, from No.
-- He was writing now a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in these disastrous times, when the ingenuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might try to work such a formidable engine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Butwhen she married again- when she took that most disastrous stepof marrying you, in short,' said my aunt, 'to be plain- did no oneput in a word for the boy at that time?'
-- A dream of their coming in with Dora; of the pew-openerarranging us, like a drill-sergeant, before the altar rails; of mywondering, even then, why pew-openers must always be the mostdisagreeable females procurable, and whether there is anyreligious dread of a disastrous infection of good-humour whichrenders it indispensable to set those vessels of vinegar upon theroad to heaven.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the vane on the roof turning round, and this change in the wind was the signal for a disastrous rain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not seen him alone since the disastrous issue of the attempted flight; and he had come, in his private and personal capacity, to say a few words of explanation in reference to that failure.
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：
-- And I feel I must say it; I feel it would be perfectly disastrous for you to marry him for you even more than for him."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, we soon made the disastrous discovery that, if our progress continued, we should soon be moving away from the torrent, the sound of which gradua lly diminished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Young John appeared at half-past one without the ivory hand and waistcoat of golden sprigs, the sun shorn of his beams by disastrous clouds, Mr Pancks presented him to the yellow-haired Ruggs as the young man he had so often mentioned who loved Miss Dorrit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, alas, alas!Pride goes before a fall, and the revengeful Snow turned the tables with disastrous success.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God!who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!
-- In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
-- But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, drawing to itself, from all quarters, the hopeful and the hopeless--those who had their fortune yet to make and those whose fortunes and affairs had reached a disastrous climax elsewhere.
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