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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Barnacle made him a severe bow, as a wounded man of family, a wounded man of place, and a wounded man of a gentlemanly residence, all rolled into one; and he made Mr Barnacle a bow, and was shut out into Mews Street by the flabby footman.
-- This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking.
-- Mr Sparkler referred to his pulse again, and put himself through some severe mental discipline before he replied:'Fellers referring to my Governor expression not my own occasionally compliment my Governor in a very handsome way on being immensely rich and knowing perfect phenomenon of Buyer and Banker and that but say the Shop sits heavily on him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am not sorry you lost them, for you broke the rules, and deserved some punishment for disobedience,' was the severe reply, which rather disappointed the young lady, who expected nothing but sympathy.
-- But her reverence for genius received a severe shock that night, and it took her some time to recover from the discovery that the great creatures were only men and women after all.
-- If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was no use I did all I could; sat up with him nights; was very severe with him in the matter of diet ""Oh, very severe!"
-- Oh, ye stars!he sat up with me indeed, and was very severe in my diet.
-- In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, Noah writhed and twisted his body into an extensive variety of eel-like positions; thereby giving Mr. Bumble to understand that, from the violent and sanguinary onset of Oliver Twist, he had sustained severe internal injury and damage, from which he was at that moment suffering the acutest torture.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are severe on us.'
-- 'Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the pos-sibility of all this?'
-- 'Not at all,' was her answer; 'but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask nothing about it.'
-- No arguments shall be wanting on my part that can alleviate so severe a misfortune or that may comfort you, under a circumstance that must be of all others the most afflicting to a parent's mind.
-- 'You must not be too severe upon yourself,' replied Eliza-beth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning our guide was so ill, and his limbs swelled so much with the rankling of his two wounds, that he could go no farther; so we were obliged to take a new guide here, and go to Toulouse, where we found a warm cli-mate, a fruitful, pleasant country, and no snow, no wolves, nor anything like them; but when we told our story at Tou-louse, they told us it was nothing but what was ordinary in the great forest at the foot of the mountains, especially when the snow lay on the ground; but they inquired much what kind of guide we had got who would venture to bring us that way in such a severe season, and told us it was surpris-ing we were not all devoured.
-- I travelled from Toulouse to Paris, and without any considerable stay came to Calais, and landed safe at Dover the 14th of January, after having had a severe cold season to travel in.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Marianne, on the pangs which so unhappy a meeting must already have given her, and on those still more severe which might await her in its probable consequence, she could not reflect without the deepest concern.
-- I had depended on her fortitude too far, and the blow was a severe one but had her marriage been happy, so young as I then was, a few months must have reconciled me to it, or at least I should not have now to lament it.
-- They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still farther by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So severe a defeat told sadly upon her nerves.
-- It was a severe setback to her recently pleased mental state.
-- Still, it was only escape from a severe to a less severe state.
-- No severe damage was done, owing to the agility of the strikers in keeping out of reach.
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