horrible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的, 恐怖的; 讨厌的，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：
-- No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he stood in peril of a less horrible sentence had there been a chance of any one of its savage details being spared by just so much would he have lost in his fascination.
-- It hid in doorways too, rubbing its horrible shoulders against doors, and drawing them up to its ears, as if it were laugh-ing.
-- So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
-- The hour was come, when Saint Antoine was to execute his horrible idea of hoisting up men for lamps to show what he could be and do.
-- The horrible mas-sacre, days and nights long, which, within a few rounds of the clock, was to set a great mark of blood upon the blessed garnering time of harvest, was as far out of his knowledge as if it had been a hundred thousand years away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, oh, how horrible it is!And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her shriek and the words--"scoundrel" and "mistress."
-- The most horrible thing is," she began, but did not finish her thought, because Matrona Philimonovna put her head in at the door.
-- It's so horrible to talk about it."
-- "What a horrible death!"
-- But while she looked like a butterfly, clinging to a blade of grass, and just about to open its rainbow wings for fresh flight, her heart ached with a horrible despair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites.
-- All this portion of Bundelcund, which is little frequented by travellers, is inhabited by a fanatical population, hardened in the most horrible practices of the Hindoo faith.
-- "However," resumed the guide, "it is certain, not only that we shall risk our lives, but horrible tortures, if we are taken."
-- Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it, except by suffering horrible bodily contortions and agonies.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin found himself viewing "Billy," their cadaver--an undersized, blotchy old man with a horrible little red beard on his petrified, vealy face--as a machine, fascinating, complex, beautiful, but a machine.
-- Suddenly, while she was torn and inhuman with agony, he sent for Dr. Hesselink, and that horrible afternoon when the prairie spring was exuberant outside the windows of the poor iodoform-reeking room, they took the baby from her, dead.
-- A collision, a crash, the car instantly a crumpled, horrible heap, himself pinned in the telescoped berth, caught between seat and seat.
-- It is on the floor above the Kellett Shipping Agency and the shop where the Chinaman who is supposed to be a graduate of Oxford sells carved tortoise, and cocoanuts in the horrible likeness of a head shrunken by headhunters.
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：
-- The voice of her assailant was so horrible from spite and rage that it was almost a croak; but he, too, was saying something, and just as quickly and indistinctly, hur-rying and spluttering.
-- This horrible answer sent a cold chill through Raskol-nikov.
-- The fascination of a charming, virtuous, highly educated woman might make his way easier, might do wonders in attracting people to him, throwing an aureole round him, and now everything was in ruins!This sudden horrible rupture affected him like a clap of thunder; it was like a hideous joke, an absurdity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he did throw his head back, and take it off quick,I had a horrible fear, I confess, of seeing him meet the fate of thelamented Mr. Topsawyer, and fall lifeless on the carpet.
-- Miss Murdstone's heavy eyebrows followed me to the door-I say her eyebrows rather than her eyes; because they were muchmore important in her face- and she looked so exactly as she usedto look at about that hour of the morning, in our parlour atBlunderstone, that I could have fancied I had been breaking downin my lessons again, and that the dead weight on my mind wasthat horrible old spelling-book with oval woodcuts, shaped, to myyouthful fancy, like the glasses out of spectacles.
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