severe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严厉的, 严重的, 剧烈的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied Care, in a severe tone of reproach.
-- The old councillor, who had had three orders given him to make him hold his tongue, as-serted that the Leap-frog was a prophet; for that one could see on his back, if there would be a severe or mild winter, and that was what one could not see even on the back of the man who writes the almanac.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression.
-- But her face, to which she tried to give a severe and resolute expression, betrayed bewilderment and suffering.
-- "And your nurse is simply charming!A pretty maid in an apron might be even more agreeable, perhaps; but for your severe monastic style it does very well."
-- The governess had a particularly severe expression.
-- But the cold, severe glance with which he had looked at her when he came to tell her he was going had wounded her, and before he had started her peace of mind was destroyed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The Government is very severe upon that kind of offence.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his mind all the while was the page in Osler regarding diphtheria, the very picture of the words: "In severe cases the first dose should be from 8,000--" No.
-- But his work seemed to have been taken from him, his own self had been taken from him; he was no longer to be Martin, and Gottlieb's disciple, but a Man of Measured Merriment, Dr. Arrowsmith, Head of the Department of Microbic Pathology, who would wear severe collars and make addresses and never curse.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think only!Simply because a poor student, unhinged by poverty and hypo-chondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their inso-lence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U.
-- I'll stand here at the window and not be in your way 芒聙娄 I think you are right 芒聙娄' Pyotr Petrovitch returned to the sofa, sat down opposite Sonia, looked attentively at her and assumed an extremely dignified, even severe expression, as much as to say, 'don't you make any mistake, madam.'
-- He stood scanning the party with severe and vigilant eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iheard that Mr. Creakle had not preferred his claim to being aTartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe ofmasters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life,charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away,unmercifully.
-- He couldn't- or at all events he didn't defend mefrom Mr. Creakle, who was very severe with me; but whenever Ihad been treated worse than usual, he always told me that Iwanted a little of his pluck, and that he wouldn't have stood ithimself; which I felt he intended for encouragement, andconsidered to be very kind of him.
-- Mr. Creakleturned to his assistant, with a severe frown and labouredpoliteness'Now you hear what this gentleman says, Mr. Mell.
-- Copperfield and myself,'said Miss Murdstone, with severe composure, 'are connections.
-- She wasa woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject(particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fieryrash.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Indeed, Harriet, it would have been a severe pang to lose you; but it must have been.
-- He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing.
-- The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said much praise and many comments undoubt-ing decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerable; but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
-- Emma smiled and answered 'My visit was of use to the nervous part of her complaint, I hope; but not even I can charm away a sore throat; it is a most severe cold indeed.
-- She went to Mrs. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was. She had to destroy all the hopes which she had been so industri-ously feeding to appear in the ungracious character of the one preferred and acknowledge herself grossly mistaken and mis-judging in all her ideas on one subject, all her ob-172 Emmaservations, all her convictions, all her prophecies for the last six weeks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All features of consequence were severe and regular.
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