terrible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 很糟的； 可怕的， 骇人的； 极度的， 厉害的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue.
-- A terrible voice in the hall cried.
-- The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed 48 Sons and Loversa fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
-- Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook.
-- He had sunk in her arms, and his face dropped on her breast: a sight so touching, yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it, that the two beholders covered their faces.
-- Miss Lucie looks ill, Mr. Darnay has had a terrible day, we are worn out.'
-- But even if not, even if I knew certainly not, show me the neck of an aristocrat and tyrant, and still I would ' Then madame, with her teeth set, tied a very terrible knot indeed.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can see nothing!This is indeed a terrible affair!Am I a simpleton, or am I unfit to be an Emperor?
-- Yes; 'tis East Street!How splendid and light it is!But really it is terrible what an effect that one glass of punch must have had on me!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- With pain and wrath she uttered the word so terrible to herself--stranger.
-- But, in spite of that, the mother had spent the whole of that winter in a state of terrible anxiety and agitation.
-- he brought out, not knowing what he was saying; but feeling that the most terrible thing was said, he stopped short and looked at her... She was breathing heavily, not looking at him.
-- She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Francis consented, however, to remain to the end of this terrible drama.
-- Passepartout was getting nervous, for the hands on the face of the big clock over the judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity.
-- The Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November.
-- It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
-- Should he perceive Colonel Proctor, we could not prevent a collision which might have terrible results.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The terrible thing happened when the Board of Regents were being shown through the campus.
-- It was not the unfeeling Angus Duer who stared at the watchman; it was a killer, and his eyes were the terrible eyes of the killer, speaking to the least experienced a message of death.
-- But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory, for the thrill of uncharted discoveries, the quest below the surface and beyond the moment, the search for fundamental laws which the scientist (however blasphemously and colloquially he may describe it) exalts above temporary healing as the religious exalts the nature and terrible glory of God above pleasant daily virtues.
-- My little girl, Mary, she has a terrible sore throat.
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