abrupt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 突然的; 粗暴的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly Rogojin burst into a loud abrupt laugh, as though he had quite forgotten that they must speak in whis-pers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that sound Mr. Bunting was nerved to abrupt action.
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：
-- The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a man-ner as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls.
-- Interrupting the dialogue by this abrupt transition, the scout had instant recourse to the fragments of food which had escaped the voracity of the Hurons.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon the isle appeared as if it had descended from a cloud, then the sea showed itself around them, spreading far away towards the east, but bounded on the west by an abrupt and precipitous coast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did he confine himself to looks and gestures, for when she and her grandfather were walking on beside the aforesaid Short, and that little man was talking with his accustomed cheerfulness on a variety of indifferent subjects, Thomas Codlin testified his jealousy and distrust by following close at her heels, and occasionally admonishing her ankles with the legs of the theatre in a very abrupt and painful manner.
-- 'We were there quite by accident,' returned Nell, confused by this abrupt questioning.
-- Perhaps some doubts of its pure delight presented themselves to Mr Swiveller, as he gave vent to one or two short abrupt sniffs, and looked incredulously at the grinning dwarf.
-- Mr Brass and Miss Sally were lurking hard by, having been, indeed, only routed from the keyhole by Mr Swiveller's abrupt exit.
-- With that, they related to him, without disguise or concealment, all that they knew of Nell and her grandfather, from their first meeting with them, down to the time of their sudden disappearance; adding (which was quite true) that they had made every possible effort to trace them, but without success; having been at first in great alarm for their safety, as well as on account of the suspicions to which they themselves might one day be exposed in consequence of their abrupt departure.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't make any of your abrupt remarks, or do anything odd, will you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him.
-- The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.
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