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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now with the rack and tortures and so on you suffer terrible pain of course; but then your tor-ture is bodily pain only (although no doubt you have plenty of that) until you die.
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- Sometimes I went and climbed the mountain and stood there in the midst of the tall pines, all alone in the terrible silence, with our little village in the distance, and the sky so blue, and the sun so bright, and an old ruined castle on the mountain-side, far away.
-- He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apollo, of the silver bow, had bred them in Perea both of them mares, and terrible as Mars in battle.
-- It is they that have brought about this terrible war with the Achaeans.
-- He sprang from his chariot clad in his suit of ar-mour, and went about among the host brandishing his two spears, exhorting the men to fight and raising the terrible cry of battle.
-- Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.
-- The terrible spear went through his gleaming shield, and pressed onward through his cuirass of cunning workman-ship; it pierced the shirt against his side, but he swerved and thus saved his life.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hall," said he, "but this is terrible weather for thin boots!"
-- I had no shelter no covering to get clothing was to forego all my advantage, to make myself a strange and terrible thing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
-- Then Moreau appeared, his massive white face all the more terrible for the blood that trickled from his forehead.
-- Then I shut the door, locked it, and went into the enclosure where Moreau lay beside his latest victims, the staghounds and the llama and some other wretched brutes, with his massive face calm even after his terrible death, and with the hard eyes open, staring at the dead white moon above.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
-- He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra.
-- 'What is it, O Killer of the terrible Nag?'
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
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：
-- Though his person was more than usually screened by a green and fringed hunting-shirt, like that of the white man, there was no concealment to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the dignified elevation of his receding fore-head, together with all the finest proportions of a noble head, bared to the generous scalping tuft.
-- As the inner passages to the two caves were so close to each other, Duncan, believing that escape was no longer possible, passed David and the sisters, to place himself be-tween the latter and the first onset of the terrible meeting.
-- The look of exultation and brutal triumph which an-nounced this terrible truth was irresistibly irritating.
-- The Indians followed in-stantly like busy attendants on the terrible messenger, and Uncas commenced speaking earnestly and with much ac-tion, in the Delaware tongue.
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