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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merrylegs;' she whispered the awful fact; 'is his performing dog.'
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.'
-- Left alone with her mother, Louisa saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face, like one who was floating away upon some great water, all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had all the more opportunity to reflect and admire the awful grandeur of the scene around.
-- At last, when I thought myself at my last gasp, about eleven at night, it being in that region quite dark, we reached the summit of Mount Sneffels!It was in an awful mood of mind, that despite my fatigue, before I descended into the crater which was to shelter us for the night, I paused to behold the sun rise at midnight on the very day of its lowest declension, and enjoyed the spectacle of its ghastly pale rays cast upon the isle which lay sleeping at our feet!
-- I could, however, plainly see that my uncle was contending painfully against the extreme fatigues of our journey, and the awful torture generated by the absence of water.
-- These treasures--mighty and inexhaustible, were buried in the morning of the earth's history, at such awful depths, that no crowbar or pickax will ever drag them from their tomb!
-- My situation, after all sophistry and reflection, had finally to be summed up in three awful words- Lost! Lost!!LOST!!!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes.
-- Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side.
-- The stacks of soap in the grocers' shops, the rhubarb and lemons in the greengro-cers!the awful hats in the milliners!all went by ugly, ugly, ugly, followed by the plaster-and-gilt horror of the cinema with its wet picture announcements, 'A Woman's Love!
-- 'You do seem to have had awful experiences of women,' she said.
-- I don't want to waste time at Wragby, it's an awful place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then stand up against them!She's awful clever, and none but a clever one durst say a word to her.
-- Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, with an awful enjoyment of the Snuggery's resources, pointed out the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner, and other premises generally tending to the deduction that the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, was to come to the Marshalsea.
-- She appeared to have acquired, in her infancy, some awful impression of the might of this formidable Mr Tite Barnacle of Grosvenor Square, or very near it, and the Circumlocution Office, which quite crushed her when she mentioned him.
-- They seemed, however, to be more directly concerned than the others had been in the effective execution of the great principle of the office, as there was an awful inner apartment with a double door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be assembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into which there was an imposing going of papers, almost constantly; wherein another gentleman, number four, was the active instrument.
-- She thought that she had been similarly frightened once last week, and that the noise was of a mysterious kind a sound of rustling and of three or four quick beats like a rapid step; while a shock or tremble was communicated to her heart, as if the step had shaken the floor, or even as if she had been touched by some awful hand.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
-- The latter informs the party that she bequeths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.
-- At the stern order the buzz ceased, and fifty pairs of blue, black, gray, and brown eyes were obediently fixed upon his awful countenance.
-- 'The coolness of you two rascals is amazing,' began Mr. Pickwick, trying to get up an awful frown and only succeed-ing in producing an amiable smile.
-- 'Oh, Jo, you are not going to wear that awful hat?
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