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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
-- Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
-- And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to me, as a pilot of the living God.
-- What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan!The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me.
-- For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child's face, and he sobbed bitterly.
-- The darkness and the deep stillness of the room were very solemn; as they brought into the boy's mind the thought that death had been hovering there, for many days and nights, and might yet fill it with the gloom and dread of his awful presence, he turned his face upon the pillow, and fervently prayed to Heaven.
-- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions, and in particular places; at his own house espe-cially, and of a Sunday evening, when he has nothing to do.'
-- She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all looked their assent; it seemed too awful a moment for speech.
-- "Of ONE thing, my dear sister," kindly taking her hand, and speaking in an awful whisper, "I may assure you; and I WILL do it, because I know it must gratify you.
-- When Elinor had ceased to rejoice in the dryness of the season, a very awful pause took place.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who have never heard that solemn voice of the ghostly clock which ticks with awful distinctness, "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," are in no position to judge.
-- "What an awful thing that is."
-- "It's going to be awful bad, so the papers say."
-- "Butter is awful dear these days," he suggested.
-- "It seems an awful lot to pay for rent," he said.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up.
-- I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
-- Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.
-- I don't know how long I was asleep, but all of a sudden there was an awful scream and I was up.
-- It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider- webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale under- side of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would fol-low along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the blu-est and blackest FST!it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree- tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rum- bling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I won't drink this awful water.
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