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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After him from the brake came a monstrous lout, a thing of horse and rhinoceros, chewing a straw as it came; then appeared the Swine-woman and two Wolf-women; then the Fox-bear witch, with her red eyes in her peaked red face, and then others, all hurrying eagerly.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
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：
-- "Then, isn't it monstrous to leave her in this fashion, after seventeen years of married life, without a fault to find with her?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its strange form caught the eye, and when Gideon Spilett, on the engineer's advice, had drawn the outline, they found that it resembled some fantastic animal, a monstrous leviathan, which lay sleeping on the surface of the Pacific.
-- One might have said that the water escaped by a monstrous gargoyle, shaped with all the imagination of an artist of the Renaissance.
-- To the soup succeeded the peccaries, which Pencroft insisted on carving himself, and of which he served out monstrous portions to each of the guests.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The creature appeared quite horrible with his monstrous head and little body, as he rubbed his hands slowly round, and round, and round again with something fantastic even in his manner of performing this slight action and, dropping his shaggy brows and cocking his chin in the air, glanced upward with a stealthy look of exultation that an imp might have copied and appropriated to himself.
-- They had stopped to rest beneath a finger-post where four roads met, and Mr Codlin in his deep misanthropy had let down the drapery and seated himself in the bottom of the show, invisible to mortal eyes and disdainful of the company of his fellow creatures, when two monstrous shadows were seen stalking towards them from a turning in the road by which they had come.
-- 'That's always what the ladies say,' replied the man, looking a long way round, as if he were appealing to Nature in general against such monstrous propositions.
-- cried Quilp, looking up at the old gateway, and showing in the moonlight like some monstrous image that had come down from its niche and was casting a backward glance at its old house, 'faster!'
-- She had no fear of the dear old grandfather, in whose love for her this disease of the brain had been engendered; but the man she had seen that night, wrapt in the game of chance, lurking in her room, and counting the money by the glimmering light, seemed like another creature in his shape, a monstrous distortion of his image, a something to recoil from, and be the more afraid of, because it bore a likeness to him, and kept close about her, as he did.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web.
-- Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then flew down a monstrous crow,As black as a tar-barrel;Which frightened both the heroes so,They quite forgot their quarrel.'
-- 'I wish the monstrous crow would come!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body.
-- "John Silver," he said, "you're a prodigious villain and imposter a monstrous imposter, sir.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few steps off, a monstrous sea-spider, about thirty-eight inches high, was watching me with squinting eyes, ready to spring upon me.
-- Monstrous brutes!which would crush a whole man in their iron jaws.
-- See, friend Ned, see the monstrous effects of intemperance!"
-- In 1861, to the north-east of Teneriffe, very nearly in the same latitude we are in now, the crew of the despatch-boat Alector perceived a monstrous cuttlefish swimming in the waters.
-- He had made himself fast, to prevent being washed overboard by the monstrous waves.
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：
-- There was something monstrous about him, about his juxtaposition against her.
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