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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Glenarvan thought for him, and pictured to himself the horrible fate that seemed to await him inevitably.
-- Glenarvan wished to spare the ladies the horrible spectacle at Camden Bridge.
-- "My second tale will answer you, my boy," said Paganel: "One day a missionary was reproving a cannibal for the horrible custom, so abhorrent to God's laws, of eating human flesh!‘And beside,' said he, ‘it must be so nasty!'
-- Horrible yells followed; a hundred arms threatened the terror-stricken captives.
-- Their death was speedy and not aggravated by tedious suffering; torture was reserved for the authors of the murder, who, only twenty paces off, averted their eyes from the horrible scene which was to grow yet more horrible.
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：
-- 'But why should you wish to go into so horrible a place?'
-- It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had eight hard needle-like whiskers coming out from different parts of its body; it went along like a snake, bending its body about in spite of the shell it wore, and its motion was very quick and very horrible to look at.
-- I turned sharp round and saw that the brute had crawled up the wall as high as the level of my face, and that its horrible tail, which was mov-ing incredibly fast from side to side, was actually touching my hair!I jumped up and it disappeared.
-- 'Suddenly the monster reappeared; it crawled slowly across the room and made for the door, as though with some fixed intention, and with a slow movement that was more horrible than ever.
-- The shell cracked in her teeth; and the tail and legs stuck out of her mouth and shook about in a horrible manner.
-- This ghost had humiliated me; nor could I bear to be subordi-nate to that dark, horrible force which was embodied in the form of the loathsome insect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew thrust his head out of the room door when Sikes had left it; looked after him as we walked up the dark passage; shook his clenched fist; muttered a deep curse; and then, with a horrible grin, reseated himself at the table; where he was soon deeply absorbed in the interesting pages of the Hue-and-Cry.
-- murmured the man, in a horrible passion; between his clenched teeth; 'if I had only had the courage to say the word, I might have been free of you in a night.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But here we had a most horrible sight; for riding up to the entrance where the horse came out, we found the car-casses of another horse and of two men, devoured by the ravenous creatures; and one of the men was no doubt the same whom we heard fire the gun, for there lay a gun just by him fired off; but as to the man, his head and the upper part of his body was eaten up.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
-- Short was the time, however, in which that fear could affect her, for within half an hour after Willoughby's leaving the house, she was again called down stairs by the sound of another carriage. Eager to save her mother from every unnecessary moment's horrible suspense, she ran immediately into the hall, and reached the outward door just in time to receive and support her as she entered it.
-- My peace of mind is doubly involved in it; for not only is it horrible to suspect a person, who has been what HE has been to ME, of such designs, but what must it make me appear to myself? What in a situation like mine, but a most shamefully unguarded affection could expose me to" "How then," asked her sister, "would you account for his behaviour?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he went to marching up and down, thinking, and frowning horrible every now and then; then he would hoist up his eyebrows; next he would squeeze his hand on his forehead and stagger back and kind of moan; next he would sigh, and next he'd let on to drop a tear.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he were here now, I wouldn't be so hungry!Oh, how horrible it is to be hungry!"
-- Oh, how horrible it is to be hungry!"
-- Take pity on a poor boy who is being chased by two Assass--" He did not finish, for two powerful hands grasped him by the neck and the same two horrible voices growled threateningly: "Now we have you!"
-- And what a horrible night it was!It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning was so bright that it turned the night into day.
-- Seeing himself so near to death (and such a horrible death!)
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