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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean.
-- "Undoubtedly," replied the captain, "if it possesses such dreadful power, it is the most terrible animal that ever was created.
-- The second lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw harpoons to the distance of a mile, and long duck-guns, with explosive bullets, which inflicted mortal wounds even to the most terrible animals.
-- Ned Land contented himself with sharpening his harpoon a terrible weapon in his hands.
-- At this moment, leaning on the forecastle bulwark, I saw below me Ned Land grappling the martingale in one hand, brandishing his terrible harpoon in the other, scarcely twenty feet from the motionless animal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her.
-- Yet she could never stop up the terrible gap of insufficiency.
-- A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning.
-- It was a terrible face, void, peaked, abstracted almost into meaninglessness by the weight of sensation beneath.
-- The terrible tension grew stronger and stronger, it was most fearful agony, like being walled up.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!What else could it be that made me pass such a terrible night?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have terrible news."
-- Silver himself appeared less terrible in contrast with this creature of the woods, and I turned on my heel, and looking sharply behind me over my shoulder, began to retrace my steps in the direction of the boats.
-- Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.
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