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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no motherno anything in the way of arelative, that I could discover, except a sister, who fled to Americathe moment we had taken him off her hands; and he becamequartered on us like a horrible young changeling.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a horrible idea!
-- Compliments, charades, and horrible blunders; and it was not to be supposed that poor Harriet should not be recol-lecting too; but she behaved very well, and was only rather pale and silent.
-- Smallridge, too!Jane actually on the point of going as gov-erness!What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy?
-- Knightley and Harriet Smith! Such an ele-vation on her side!Such a debasement on his!It was horrible to Emma to think how it must sink him in the general opin-ion, to foresee the smiles, the sneers, the merriment it would prompt at his expense; the mortification and disdain of his brother, the thousand inconveniences to himself. Could it be? No; it was impossible.
-- I, who am owing all my happiness to you, would not it be horrible ingratitude in me to be severe on them?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A horrible conviction darted through Oak.
-- 'Twas a horrible sinful situation, and a very curious place for a good man.
-- 'Tis a horrible testament mind ye, which you say and seal with your blood-stone, and the prophet Matthew tells us that on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder.
-- "All I mane is that in common truth 'twas Miss Everdene and Sergeant Troy, but in the horrible so-help-me truth that ye want to make of it perhaps 'twas somebody else!"
-- This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings.
-- You shall not die!You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold!No!No!I nev-er could survive so horrible a misfortune.'
-- He approached; his coun-112 Frankensteintenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
-- The horrible scene of the preceding day was forever acting before my eyes; the 163females were flying and the enraged Felix tearing me from his father's feet.
-- I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny her-self to me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, like a thunderclap, had come this horrible news.
-- And Ashley was in that horrible place!Ashley was alive but he was wounded and at Rock Island, and the snowmust have been deep in Illinois when he was taken there.
-- They were here in these haunted woods where theslanting afternoon sun gleamed eerily through unmoving leaves, friends and foes, peering at her in her rickety wagon,through eyes blinded with blood and red dust glazed, horrible eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked all round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him.
-- When this horrible din had lasted a certain time, it mechanically awoke Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears.
-- It was horrible to think that I had provided the weapon, however undesignedly, but I could hardly think otherwise.
-- said Wemmick, getting upon a chair, and blowing the dust off the horrible heads before bringing them down.
-- For, after I had made the monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family), and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence.
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