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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such time is only second, in my forebodingapprehensions, to the time when the man with the wooden legshall unlock the rusty gate to give admission to the awful Mr.Creakle.
-- My aunt walked into thatstory, and walked out of it, a dread and awful personage; but therewas one little trait in her behaviour which I liked to dwell on, andwhich gave me some faint shadow of encouragement.
-- With which words she hurried intothe house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance;and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolatelyover the top of it towards the parlour-window, where a muslincurtain, partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screenor fan fastened on to the window-sill, a small table, and a greatchair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that momentseated in awful state.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.
-- "Now, Cain Ball," said Gabriel restlessly, "can you swear in the most awful form that the woman you saw was Miss Everdene?"
-- "It is wonderful how she can be, poor thing, under such an awful affliction!"
-- Bathsheba indulged in contemplations of escape from her position by immediate death, which, thought she, though it was an inconvenient and awful way, had limits to its inconvenience and awfulness that could not be overpassed; whilst the shames of life were measureless.
-- "A sort of Alonzo the Brave; and when I go in the guests will sit in silence and fear, and all laughter and pleasure will be hushed, and the lights in the chamber burn blue, and the worms Ugh, horrible! Ring for some more brandy, Pennyways, I felt an awful shudder just then!Well, what is there besides?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful bound-ary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bitter agony.
-- The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the ef-fect of solemnizing my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.
-- From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think he's an awful sissy."
-- "Ashley Wilkes said they had an awful lot of scenery and music.
-- Surely, thought Scarlett, Pa will know whether this awful story is true.
-- ... And that awful Captain Butler, making you so conspicuous, and he's a terrible,terrible person, Scarlett.
-- "Oh, she used awful grammar but I could see she was trying so hard to be elegant, poor thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair, saying nothing more than the awful words, "You come along and be dosed."
-- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
-- But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.
-- When this little interruption was over, Joe resumed:--"Well, you see, Pip, and here we are!That's about where it lights; here we are!Now, when you take me in hand in my learning, Pip (and I tell you beforehand I am awful dull, most awful dull), Mrs. Joe mustn't see too much of what we're up to.
-- And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: 'I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father's a;' Sissy whispered the awful word, 'a clown.'
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