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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'll suffer the most awful privations.
-- It was awful to see her lovely skin all wounded.
-- It gave you an awful sense of the infinity of space and of the endlessness of time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit entered the office in a great tremor, for he was not used to going among strange ladies and gentlemen, and the tin boxes and bundles of dusty papers had in his eyes an awful and venerable air.
-- Mr Quilp accompanied this admission with such an awful wink, indicative of old rovings and backslidings, that Mrs Jiniwin was indignant, and could not forbear from remarking under her breath that he might at least put off his confessions until his wife was absent; for which act of boldness and insubordination Mr Quilp first stared her out of countenance and then drank her health ceremoniously.
-- As Nell approached the awful door, it turned slowly upon its hinges with a creaking noise, and, forth from the solemn grove beyond, came a long file of young ladies, two and two, all with open books in their hands, and some with parasols likewise.
-- Meanwhile, Mr Swiveller, on the top of the stool, drew himself into as flat a shape as possible against the wall, and looked, not unconcernedly, down upon the single gentleman, who appeared at the door growling and cursing in a very awful manner, and, with the boots in his hand, seemed to have an intention of hurling them down stairs on speculation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, that awful affair occurred after that notable commemoration of Christ's resurrection!"
-- He recalled that awful night with the breaking ice, the fog, and especially that waning, upturned moon which rose in the morning and lit up something dark and terrible.
-- "What an awful blockhead!"
-- He is an awful rogue.
-- "You are an awful crank, but I love you for the very reason that you are such an awful crank," she repeated, the word evidently well describing, according to her view, the mental and moral condition of her nephew.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the awful fate to which it seemed destined.
-- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He's an awful coward, really," said the Pussum to Gerald.
-- "Julius's the most awful coward you've ever seen," she cried.
-- "High!There are centuries and hundreds of centuries of development in a straight line, behind that carving; it is an awful pitch of culture, of a definite sort."
-- Hermione seemed to be bearing down on her, awful and inchoate, making some appeal.
-- She must break down the wall she must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An awful Sunday,' commenced the paragraph beneath.
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