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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo pointed out the hideous crustacean, which a blow from the butt end of the gun knocked over, and I saw the horrible claws of the monster writhe in terrible convulsions.
-- Twenty horrible faces appeared.
-- It was a horrible wound.
-- As to the first sub-class, it gives several specimens of that singular looking fish appropriately called a 'seafrog,' with large head, sometimes pierced with holes, sometimes swollen with protuberances, bristling with spikes, and covered with tubercles; it has irregular and hideous horns; its body and tail are covered with callosities; its sting makes a dangerous wound; it is both repugnant and horrible to look at."
-- In the midst of these living plants, and under the arbours of the hydrophytes, were layers of clumsy articulates, particularly some raninae, whose carapace formed a slightly rounded triangle; and some horrible looking parthenopes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A horrible despair, and at the same time a sense of release, liberation, came over Hermione.
-- Isn't it a horrible story?"
-- "I think it is one of the most horrible stories I know."
-- "And isn't it horrible too to think of such a thing happening to one, when one was a child, and having to carry the responsibility of it all through one's life.
-- She suffered the ghastliness of dissolution, broken and gone in a horrible corruption.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on, and then there came a horrible realisation.
-- It was indescribably horrible in the darkness to feel all these soft creatures heaped upon me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately called me back, and as I did not obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump.
-- He was breathing very loud and hard, but his eyes were closed and his face a horrible colour.
-- I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a horrible kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot and left behind on some desolate and distant island.
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