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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that he had endured long and severe hardships, and that he had borne them bravely and come off victor.
-- This motion, produced by the jerking of the raft on the cable, while she lay head on to the sea, was very severe and fatiguing.
-- The blows of the short, tumbling seas were as severe as if she had been striking on a submerged rock.
-- After severe struggles General Cameron succeeded in subduing the Waikato district, but empty and depopulated, for the Maories escaped in all directions.
-- If he is relieved, as regards the severe diet, his slaves feed him with the viands he is forbidden to touch with his hands; if he is poor and has no slaves, he has to take up the food with his mouth, like an animal.
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 looked at the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them.
-- We did so, and at the cost of a severe shock to our client we succeeded in completing our case and driving Stapleton to his destruc-tion.
-- And now, my dear Watson, we have had some weeks of severe work, and for one eve-ning, I think, we may turn our thoughts into more pleasant channels.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked at the prince in severe surprise as the latter settled himself in an-other chair alongside, with his bundle on his knees.
-- One fine morning a man called upon him, calm and severe of aspect, distin-guished, but plainly dressed.
-- 'As to the article, prince,' he said, 'I admit that I wrote it, in spite of the severe criticism of my poor friend, in whom I always overlook many things because of his unfortunate state of health.
-- Such men do not give up their aspirations after originality without a severe struggle, and there have been men who, though good fellows in themselves, and even benefactors to humanity, have sunk to the level of base criminals for the sake of originality.
-- He seemed to have a wonderfully good memory, however, for he told the prince all about the two old ladies, Pavlicheff's cousins, who had taken care of him, and whom, he declared, he had taken to task for being too severe with the prince as a small sickly boy the elder sis-ter, at least; the younger had been kind, he recollected.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped at the foot of the "Coach and Horses" steps, and, according to Mr. Huxter, appeared to undergo a severe internal struggle before he could induce himself to enter the house.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a pan-ther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For many minutes the struggle between the light bubble in which they floated and the swift current was severe and doubtful.
-- 'He is severe to the idle and wicked, but to the sober and deserving he is a leader, both just and humane.
-- He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably propor-tioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolu-tion, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
-- Human power could not, however, much longer endure so severe a trial.
-- But the stern customs of his people had made too severe an exaction of the feeble old man.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
-- Her flat was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the drawing-room, notwithstanding their severe design, were bright and pretty.
-- Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawing-room in Ashley Gardens; the room blazed with fantastic colour, and I wondered if she knew that those varied hues, which fashion had imposed upon her, were due to the dreams of a poor painter in a South Sea island.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How successful she was--how much money she must have!Even now, however, it took a severe run of ill luck to decide him to appeal to her.
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