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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the vision of the Novak child, struggling for each terrible breath, overrode all else.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was in terrible poverty, yet he took upon himself the payment of his brother's debts.
-- But in spite of this scornful reflection, he was by now looking cheerful as though he were suddenly set free from a terrible burden: and he gazed round in a friendly way at the people in the room.
-- And it would have meant a terrible scandal for Dounia too; that would have been inevitable.
-- He was in terrible haste, he snatched the keys, and began trying them again.
-- It makes one's head dizzier than ever 芒聙娄 and one's mind too 芒聙娄' He was conscious of a terrible inner turmoil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It appeared, inanswer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of theetymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that theyall regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.
-- 'Times are alteringnow, and I suppose I shall be in a terrible state of earnestness oneday or other.
-- I was quitedismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins.
-- No physical pain that her father's greyhead could have borne, I think, could have been more terrible tome, than the mental endurance I saw compressed now within bothhis hands.
-- And though it is terrible to you to hear,' said Mr.Wickfield, quite subdued, 'if you knew how terrible it is for me totell, you would feel compassion for me!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That's a terrible wooden story!"
-- "And he's growed terrible crooked too, lately," Jacob continued, surveying his father's figure, which was rather more bowed than his own.
-- Joseph Poorgrass, in the background twitched, and his lips became dry with fear of some terrible consequences, as he saw Bathsheba summarily speaking, and Henery slinking off to a corner.
-- "Men be such a terrible class of society to look at a body."
-- "But after all," she expostulated in a trembling voice, "the mistake was not such a terrible thing!Now, dear Frank, when shall it be?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
-- Eugene had yet to learn that no one in Paris should present himself in any house without first making himself acquainted with the whole history of its owner, and of its owner's wife and family, so that he may avoid making any of the terrible blunders which in Poland draw forth the picturesque exclamation, "Harness five bullocks to your cart!"
-- The most terrible catastrophes only happen among the heights.
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
-- Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
-- Doubtless my words surprised Henry; he at first believed them to be the wander-ings of my disturbed imagination, but the pertinacity with which I continually recurred to the same subject persuaded him that my disorder indeed owed its origin to some un-common and terrible event.
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