monstrous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的； 极大的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
-- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
-- 'No,' said a great fat man with a monstrous chin,' I don't know much about it, either way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the evi-dence that had been warped and wrested from the young lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together; with the exception of that reference to George Washington, which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous joke.
-- Crouching down again in a cor-ner there, and looking in, he made out the three fishermen creeping through some rank grass!and all the gravestones in the churchyard it was a large churchyard that they were in looking on like ghosts in white, while the church tower itself looked on like the ghost of a monstrous giant.
-- With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare, they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude had made a litter for him and escorted him carefully from the spot had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful, that the Doctor had covered his eyes with his hands, and swooned away in the midst of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Rangoon rolled heavily and the passengers became impatient of the long, monstrous waves which the wind raised before their path.
-- The boat scudded thus northward during the whole day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always, fortunately, a speed equal to theirs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Some of you will think that it does not matter; some of you will think, like Bernard Shaw, that I am an executioner and the more monstrous because I am cool about it; and some of you will not think at all.
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：
-- At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Push-kin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.
-- It seemed to him strange and monstrous that he could have slept in such forgetfulness from the previous day and had done nothing, had prepared nothing yet芒聙娄.
-- And, indeed, if it had ever happened that everything to the least point could have been considered and finally settled, and no uncertainty of any kind had remained, he would, it seems, have renounced it all as something absurd, monstrous and impossible.
-- And he suddenly felt that his uneasiness at the mere contact with Porfiry, at the first words, at the first looks, had grown in an instant to monstrous proportions, 472 Crime and Punishmentand that this was fearfully dangerous.
-- 'The fact is this monstrous difference in age and develop-ment excites your sensuality!Will you really make such a marriage?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winterweather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it,everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, adaymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight thatbrooded on my wits, and blunted them!
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was neces-sary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Rhett jerked the horse's head and turned him intoanother street, another deafening explosion tore the air and a monstrous skyrocket of flame and smoke shot up in thewest.
-- As they neared Marietta Street, the trees thinned out and the tall flames roaring up above the buildings threwstreet and houses into a glare of light brighter than day, casting monstrous shadows that twisted as wildly as torn sailsflapping in a gale on a sinking ship.
-- Silence fell and in the silence an idea too monstrous for words took form.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition to the dread that, having led up to so much mischief, it would be now more likely than ever to alienate Joe from me if he believed it, I had a further restraining dread that he would not believe it, but would assort it with the fabulous dogs and veal-cutlets as a monstrous invention.
-- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one prin-cipal motive of my retirement hither.
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
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