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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warning was scarcely spoken before the enormous billow, a monstrous wave forty feet high, broke over the fugitives with a fearful noise.
-- The savages began by eating human flesh to appease the demands of an appetite rarely satiated; subsequently the priests regulated and satisfied the monstrous custom.
-- Let us hope that one day Christianity will abolish all these monstrous customs."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
-- The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it not monstrous chaos?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.
-- When he was in full array he sprang for-ward as monstrous Mars when he takes part among men whom Jove has set fighting with one another even so did huge Ajax, bulwark of the Achaeans, spring forward with a grim smile on his face as he brandished his long spear and strode onward.
-- While they were busy stripping the armour from these heroes, the youths who were led on by Polydamas and Hec-tor (and these were the greater part and the most valiant of those that were trying to break through the wall and fire the ships) were still standing by the trench, uncertain what they should do; for they had seen a sign from heaven when they had essayed to cross it a soaring eagle that flew skirt-ing the left wing of their host, with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons still alive and struggling to escape.
-- The Trojans were struck with ter-ror when they saw the snake, portent of aegis-bearing Jove, writhing in the midst of them, and Polydamas went up to Hector and said, 'Hector, at our councils of war you are ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless I will say what I think will be best; let us not now go on to fight the Danaans at their ships, for I know what will happen if this soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our host with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons (the snake being still alive) was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, Xury could not cut off his head, but he cut off a foot, and brought it with him, and it was a monstrous great one.
-- My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip, which I had trimmed into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
-- It was about two hours before night when, our guide be-ing something before us, and not just in sight, out rushed three monstrous wolves, and after them a bear, from a hol-low way adjoining to a thick wood; two of the wolves made at the guide, and had he been far before us, he would have been devoured before we could have helped him; one of them fastened upon his horse, and the other attacked the man with such violence, that he had not time, or presence of mind enough, to draw his pistol, but hallooed and cried out to us most lustily.
-- My man Friday had delivered our guide, and when we came up to him he was helping him off his horse, for the man was both hurt and frightened, when on a sudden we espied the bear come out of the wood; and a monstrous one it was, the biggest by far that ever I saw.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, Palmer, you shall see a monstrous pretty girl."
-- I am monstrous glad of it, for then I shall have her for a neighbour you know."
-- She is a monstrous lucky girl to get him, upon my honour; not but that he is much more lucky in getting her, because she is so very handsome and agreeable, that nothing can be good enough for her.
-- Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable!The children are all hanging about her already, as if she was an old acquaintance.
-- "Nay," cried Mrs. Jennings, "I am sure I shall be monstrous glad of Miss Marianne's company, whether Miss Dashwood will go or not, only the more the merrier say I, and I thought it would be more comfortable for them to be together; because, if they got tired of me, they might talk to one another, and laugh at my old ways behind my back.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other nig-gers.
-- A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lan-tern in the middle of it.
-- It was a monstrous big river here, with the tallest and the thickest kind of timber on both banks; just a solid wall, as well as I could see by the stars.
-- Chapter XVI E slept most all day, and started out at night, a little Wways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.
-- She was a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, look-ing like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards hanging right over us.
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