awful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的; 糟糕的; 极度的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea.
-- 90 Sons and Lovers He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful lan-guage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.
-- Whatever tools they worked with, they worked hard, until the awful striking of the church clock so terrified Young Jerry, that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's.
-- And it was now, about little Lucie's sixth birthday, that they began to have an awful sound, as of a great storm in France with a dreadful sea rising.
-- But, such awful workers, and such awful work!
-- With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare, they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude had made a litter for him and escorted him carefully from the spot had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful, that the Doctor had covered his eyes with his hands, and swooned away in the midst of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault--all my fault, though I'm not to blame.
-- That will be awful for me, and for her too."
-- "Oh, well, anyway there's nothing awful in it for a girl.
-- Here, you've been married, you know the feeling...it's awful that we--old--with a past... not of love, but of sins...are brought all at once so near to a creature pure and innocent; it's loathsome, and that's why one can't help feeling oneself unworthy."
-- It was awful to see her!....
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's awful sincere."
-- They don't talk about saving lives but about 'losing cases'--losing dollars!And they wouldn't even mind losing cases if it was a sensational operation that'd advertise 'em!They make me sick!How many of 'em do you find that're interested in the work Ehrlich is doing in Germany-- yes, or that Max Gottlieb is doing right here and now!Gottlieb's just taken an awful fall out of Wright's opsonin theory."
-- Together they pointed out that for a person who felt his Zenith training had made him so "gosh- awful smart that he sticks up his nose at us poor hicks of dirt-farmers," Martin's scarf was rather badly tied.
-- I think maybe it is croup and she look awful and-- Could you come right away?"
-- I tell you a priest or a preacher can send you an awful lot of business."
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：
-- He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture.
-- There were various other reasons owing to which Dounia could not hope to escape from that awful 50 Crime and Punishmenthouse for another six weeks.
-- An awful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden; Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.
-- He left the seat, and went off almost at a run; he meant to turn back, homewards, but the thought of going home sud-denly filled him with intense loathing; in that hole, in that awful little cupboard of his, all this had for a month past been growing up in him; and he walked on at random.
-- But she is an awful old harpy芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quiet enough to reassure me, but I have no doubt if I hadseen a moderately large wave come tumbling in, I should havetaken to my heels, with an awful recollection of her drownedrelations.
-- I had plenty to think of,therefore, besides my mind running continually on the kind ofplace I was going to- which was an awful speculation.
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