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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in dry seasons it is a danger to cross it, but after these autumn rains it is an awful place.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- Was there something in the whole aspect of the man, to-day, sufficient to justify the prince's terror, and the awful suspicions of his demon?
-- In the face before him there was such dreadful remorse and horror that he thought she must be a criminal, that she must have just committed some awful crime.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in pun-ishment of their present treachery.
-- When he was coming on for the fourth time, as though he were a god, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said, 'Take heed, son of Tydeus, and draw off; think not to match your-self against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.'
-- She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove.
-- The oaken axle groaned aloud under the burden of the awful goddess and the hero; Pallas Minerva took the whip and reins, and drove straight at Mars.
-- or is she at the temple of Minerva where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Looking in the direction in which they faced, I saw coming through the haze under the trees beyond the end of the pas-sage of dens the dark figure and awful white face of Moreau.
-- I heard a short, sharp cry behind me, a fall, and turning saw an awful face rushing upon me, not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lid-less eyes ablaze.
-- Before me was the glittering desola-tion of the sea, the awful solitude upon which I had already suffered so much; behind me the island, hushed under the dawn, its Beast People silent and unseen.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.'
-- Did you ever hear anything so awful as that?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Give him, in pity, give him the contents of another ri-fle,' cried Duncan, turning away his eyes in horror from the spectacle of a fellow creature in such awful jeopardy.
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- shouted the former speaker, in the awful tones of parental agony, the sound reaching even to the woods, and rolling back in solemn echo.
-- At the same moment, the warriors glided in a body from the lodge, and the outer air was filled with loud shouts, that nearly drowned those awful sounds, which were still ringing beneath the arches of the woods.
-- The awful effect was heightened by the piercing shrieks of the women and the fierce yells of the warriors.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Aren't you taking an awful chance?"
-- It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd rather die than drink that awful medicine."
-- "What an awful world to live in!Where shall we find a safe place for gentlemen like ourselves?"
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