intense是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 强烈的, 剧烈的; 热烈的, 热情的,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:
-- The intense cold quickly kills travelers, and those who even manage to hold out against it fall victims to the violence of the TEMPORALES, a sort of hurricane peculiar to those regions, which yearly fills the abysses of the Cordilleras with dead bodies.
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- Ten people could easily find room in it, and though the walls might be none too water-tight in the rainy season, at this time of the year, at any rate, it was sufficient protection against the intense cold, which, according to the thermometer, was ten degrees below zero.
-- These might easily have been taken for sheets of ice, had not the intense heat forbidden the illusion; and the contrast these dazzling white sheets presented to the dry, burned-up ground gave the desert a most peculiar character.
-- Soon the whole sky from east to north seemed supported by a phosphoric band of intense brilliancy.
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:
-- I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentra-tion during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were es-sential and which immaterial.
-- Then on the top of these more or less vague im-pressions there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.
-- The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.
-- Intense mental concentration has a curi-ous way of blotting out what has passed.
-- 'We now come to that portion of his life which has proved to be of such intense interest to us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nina Alexandrovna's question betrayed intense annoy-ance.
-- A hungry longing to speak his mind out seemed to flash in the man's eyes, com-bined with an intense anger.
-- These instants were characterized to de-fine it in a word by an intense quickening of the sense of personality.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
-- It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that same commander's cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical.
-- The hours wore on; Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.
-- All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was separately touched by some specific recollection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- exclaimed Mr. Bumble, stopping short, and darting at his little charge a look of intense malignity.
-- Whether his meditations were so intense as to be disturbed by the dog's winking, or whether his feelings were so wrought upon by his reflections that they required all the relief derivable from kicking an unoffending animal to allay them, is matter for argument and consideration.
-- But, unfortunately, Charley, in opening his mouth to reply that he was never more serious in his life, was unable to prevent the escape of such a violent roar, that the abused Mr. Chitling, without any preliminary ceremonies, rushed across the room and aimed a blow at the offender; who, being skilful in evading pursuit, ducked to avoid it, and chose his time so well that it lighted on the chest of the merry old gentleman, and caused him to stagger to the wall, where he stood panting for breath, while Mr. Chitling looked on in intense dismay.
-- A more than ordinary redness in the region of the young gentleman's nose, and a kind of fixed wink in his right eye, denoted that he was in a slight degree intoxicated; these symptoms were confirmed by the intense relish with which he took his oysters, for which nothing but a strong appreciation of their cooling properties, in cases of internal fever, could have sufficiently accounted.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Its principal element was daring, backed, of course, by an intense desire and admiration for the sex.
-- "I will," said Hurstwood, standing back, and feeling intense relief at her going.
-- To his self-satisfaction intense and strong, he did it.
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