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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood came close and bade her good morning, with such constraint that she could not but think he had stepped across to the washing for its own sake, hoping not to find her there; more, she fancied his brow severe and his eye slighting.
-- she exclaimed, with severe remonstrance, "you who are so strict with the other men see what you are doing yourself!"
-- What he would try to recognize was that the severe schooling she had been subjected to had made Bathsheba much more considerate than she had formerly been of the feelings of others, and he trusted that, should she be willing at any time in the future to marry any man at all, that man would be himself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil.
-- He could not help regarding my exclamation as a presump-tion of my guilt and said in rather a severe tone, 'I should have thought, young man, that the presence of your father would have been welcome instead of inspiring such violent 221repugnance.'
-- As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His severe black suit, with fineruffled shirt and trousers smartly strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, forhe was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a body that was powerful and latently dangerous in its lazy grace.
-- I fear he will be severe with you despite my pleadings.
-- When the wine was on the table and the two girls rose to leave him, Gerald cocked a severe eye at his daughterfrom under frowning brows and commanded her presence alone for a few minutes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ("You listen to this," said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.)
-- Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.
-- (To the boy, and with a dreadfully severe stare; foreseeing the danger of that miscreant's brushing me with it, or making some other sign of familiarity.)
-- Here I was able to get some comforts for Magwitch,--Provis no longer,--who had received some very severe injury in the Chest, and a deep cut in the head.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if I should describe the kitchen grate, the prodigious pots and kettles, the joints of meat turning on the spits, with many other particulars, perhaps I should be hardly believed; at least a severe critic would be apt to think I enlarged a little, as travellers are often suspected to do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he was rather severe with me, I loved him, and my heart ached at his sufferings.
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
-- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection--if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.
-- "And your courage with it," said my uncle, speaking in a severe tone.
-- Of course, under the circumstances, we necessarily experienced several severe losses.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At least,' he said, subsiding, 'you'll be lucky if you've got off without a severe cold.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her severe face had no thread of relaxation in it, by which any explorer could have been guided to the gloomy labyrinth of her thoughts.
-- Woe to the defaulter whose appeal lay to the tribunal where those severe eyes presided.
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