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：
-- But, though the power of psalmody was suspended in the terrible business of that field of blood through which we have passed, it has recovered its influence even over the souls of the heathen, and I am suffered to go and come at will.'
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：
-- Chapter IX"This is a terrible thing," he said, the moment we got out into the street.
-- Something terrible will happen to us."
-- "It would be dreadful if something terrible happened and I were not at hand."
-- "I foresee some terrible catastrophe."
-- I think it's terrible that she should have been deprived of it in that cruel way, and I am ashamed because I do not really care."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year.
-- Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
-- Such was the terrible question!The voyagers could distinctly see that solid spot which they must reach at any cost.
-- But, when only two fathoms off, terrible cries resounded from four pairs of lungs at once.
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I love the child if you could do without making me deceive her 'The dwarf muttering a terrible oath looked round as if for some weapon with which to inflict condign punishment upon his disobedient wife.
-- If he were to die if sudden illness had happened to him, and he were never to come home again, alive if, one night, he should come home, and kiss and bless her as usual, and after she had gone to bed and had fallen asleep and was perhaps dreaming pleasantly, and smiling in her sleep, he should kill himself and his blood come creeping, creeping, on the ground to her own bed-room door!These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before.
-- Nell shrank timidly from all the dwarf's advances towards conversation, and fled from the very sound of his voice; nor were the lawyer's smiles less terrible to her than Quilp's grimaces.
-- At last they reached the passage on the ground floor, where the snoring of Mr Quilp and his legal friend sounded more terrible in their ears than the roars of lions.
-- However, he did nothing of the kind, but instead thereof assisted a stout servant girl in turning the contents of the cauldron into a large tureen; a proceeding which the dogs, proof against various hot splashes which fell upon their noses, watched with terrible eagerness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something so unusual in the expression of her face--something so terrible and piteous in the meaning of her words, in that smile, that quick glance which she cast over the court-room--that the justiciary hung his head, and for a moment there was perfect silence.
-- And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
-- The animal man that dwelled in him not only raised his head, but crushed under foot the spiritual man that he was when he first arrived at the manor, and was even this very morning in church, and that terrible animal man now held sway in his soul.
-- And the terrible veil, which during these twelve years in such marvelous manner had hidden from him that crime and all his subsequent life, already began to stir, and now and then he caught a glimpse behind it.
-- She had buried all recollections of her past relations with him in that terrible dark night when, on his return from the army, he visited his aunts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
-- "Mother," said I, "take the whole and let's be going," for I was sure the bolted door must have seemed suspicious and would bring the whole hornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that terrible blind man.
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