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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A flash of horrible anticipation passed through the bar.
-- said Mr. Bunting, hesitating between two horrible alternatives.
-- "It's horrible enough.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
-- But I have to add to the published story of the 'Lady Vain' an-other, possibly as horrible and far stranger.
-- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
-- I stood overcome by this amazing realisation and then the most horrible questionings came rushing into my mind.
-- I picked myself up and stood trembling, my mind a chaos of the most horrible misgiv-ings.
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：
-- A second yell soon fol-lowed the first, when a rush of voices was heard pouring down the island, from its upper to its lower extremity, until they reached the naked rock above the caverns, where, after a shout of savage triumph, the air continued full of horrible cries and screams, such as man alone can utter, and he only when in a state of the fiercest barbarity.
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：
-- I could understand it in a young man, but I think it's horrible in a man of his years, with children who are nearly grown up.
-- I received the impression of a life which was a bitter struggle against every sort of difficulty; but I realised that much which would have seemed horrible to most people did not in the least affect him.
-- A horrible thought passed through the Dutchman's mind, and he shuddered.
-- We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.
-- My first idea was to begin it with the account of Strickland's last years in Tahiti and with his horrible death, and then to go back and relate what I knew of his beginnings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had not even appeared necessary in that horrible weather to place a guard in the square, in the midst of which plunged the balloon.
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.
-- As he spoke, Daniel Quilp drew off and drank three small glassfuls of the raw spirit, and then with a horrible grimace took a great many pulls at his pipe, and swallowing the smoke, discharged it in a heavy cloud from his nose.
-- 'Have you been making that horrible noise?'
-- Oh!if those who rule the destinies of nations would but remember this if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found if they would but turn aside from the wide thoroughfares and great houses, and strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk many low roofs would point more truly to the sky, than the loftiest steeple that now rears proudly up from the midst of guilt, and crime, and horrible disease, to mock them by its contrast.
-- Then, she was distracted with a horrible fear that he might be committing it at that moment; with a dread of hearing shrieks and cries piercing the silence of the night; with fearful thoughts of what he might be tempted and led on to do, if he were detected in the act, and had but a woman to struggle with.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was absorbed in the horrible thought that the same Maslova, whom he knew as an innocent and beautiful girl ten years ago, could be guilty of such a crime.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion!I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash.
-- I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moonlit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness, even anger at the folly of leaving the machine having leaked away with my strength.
-- For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared.
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