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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His thoughts were evidently bent on the terrible parchment.
-- His red eyes, his pallid countenance, his matted hair, his feverish hands, his hectically flushed cheeks, showed how terrible had been his struggle with the impossible, and what fearful fatigue he had undergone during that long sleepless night.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the terrible year 1917, and they were intimate as two people who stand together on a sinking ship.
-- Only there was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hob-nailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious.
-- She felt a terrible appeal coming to her from him, that made her almost lose her balance.
-- Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which Only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche.
-- And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had heard the rush of the tide against obstacles; and looked down, awed, through the dark vapour on the river; had seen little spots of lighted water where the bridge lamps were reflected, shining like demon eyes, with a terrible fascination in them for guilt and misery.
-- 'Ah!You are a terrible fellow,' returned Gowan, airily.
-- My child, whatever you may think, that lady's influence over you astonishing to us, and I should hardly go too far in saying terrible to us to see is founded in passion fiercer than yours, and temper more violent than yours.
-- With those words and a parting glance, Flora bustled out, leaving Clennam under dreadful apprehension of this terrible charge.
-- 'Just so, just so,' said Bar, nodding his head, for he was not to be put off in that way, 'and therefore I spoke of our sitting in Banco to take a special argument meaning this to be a high and solemn occasion, when, as Captain Macheath says, "the judges are met: a terrible show!"
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible bedfellow; he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is, just from the surgeon.
-- Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
-- Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.
-- But it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its confinement, and burn all his courage up.
-- For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events, as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore; and the words upon them, to be sounded in his ears, as if they were whispered, in hollow murmurs, by the spirits of the dead.
-- The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had slept well in the night, and was now no more sea-sick, but very cheerful, looking with wonder upon the sea that was so rough and terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little a time after.
-- said I; 'twas a terrible storm.'
-- By this time it blew a terrible storm indeed; and now I began to see terror and amazement in the faces even of the seamen themselves.
-- This was the unhap-piest voyage that ever man made; for though I did not carry quite 100 pounds of my new-gained wealth, so that I had 200 pounds left, which I had lodged with my friend's widow, who was very just to me, yet I fell into terrible misfortunes.
-- It began from the south-east, came about to the north-west, and then set-tled in the north-east; from whence it blew in such a terrible manner, that for twelve days together we could do noth-ing but drive, and, scudding away before it, let it carry us whither fate and the fury of the winds directed; and, during these twelve days, I need not say that I expected every day to be swallowed up; nor, indeed, did any in the ship expect to save their lives.
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