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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily the creature did not attack them, or they might not have escaped without a severe wound.
-- But as Greece and Sic ily have severe cold, producing snow and ice, so doubtless would Lincoln Island in the severest part of the winter.
-- Thrown in the air by some unknown power, he rose ten feet above the surface of the lake, fell again into the midst of the agitated waters, and then soon gained the shore, without any severe wounds, miraculously saved.
-- At any rate it commenced by very severe cold.
-- The reporter and the lad secured a good store of the precious plant, and then returned to Granite House, where they smuggled it in with as much precaution as if Pencroft had been the most vigilant and severe of custom-house officers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man shook his head, and scratched it ruefully as he contemplated this severe indisposition of a principal performer.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, she was crushed by the unexpectedly severe sentence, and was also hungry.
-- "It is severe because she has no money.
-- "Please, please don't compel me to take severe measures," said the inspector, several times repeating the same thing.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's my opinion that you never think at all,' the Rose said in a rather severe tone.
-- 'I never expected I should be a Queen so soon and I'll tell you what it is, your majesty,' she went on in a severe tone (she was always rather fond of scolding herself), 'it'll never do for you to be lolling about on the grass like that!Queens have to be dignified, you know!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then entered a dining-room, decorated and furnished in severe taste.
-- Thirty first-rate pictures, uniformly framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which were hung with tapestry of severe design.
-- Captain Nemo set the example, and submitted first to this severe discipline.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not forget me; for he had a kind heart, though he was rather severe sometimes.
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