hideous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 骇人听闻的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 83 Making his way through the tainted crowd, dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action, with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly, the messen-ger found out the door he sought, and handed in his letter through a trap in it.
-- Steeping the towels in the water, and partially wringing them out, he folded them on his head in a manner hideous to behold, sat down at the table, and said, 'Now I am ready!'
-- Through gloomy vaults where the light of day had never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cav-ernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, more like dry waterfalls than staircases, De-farge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make.
-- False eyebrows and false moustaches were stuck upon them, and their hideous countenances were all bloody and sweaty, and all awry with howling, and all staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep.
-- Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the 389general gaze from the foundations of the world the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then!The doctor.... Then..." Kitty hesitated; she wanted to say further that ever since this change had taken place in her, Stepan Arkadyevitch had become insufferably repulsive to her, and that she could not see him without the grossest and most hideous conceptions rising before her imagination.
-- But in dreams, when she had no control over her thoughts, her position presented itself to her in all its hideous nakedness.
-- With a face hideous with passion, his lower jaw trembling, and his cheeks white, Vronsky kicked her with his heel in the stomach and again fell to tugging at the rein.
-- how is it they don't put an end to such a hideous position?"
-- Tanya was pulling Grisha's hair, while he, with a face hideous with rage, was beating her with his fists wherever he could get at her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the car, which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus, stood a hideous statue with four arms, the body coloured a dull red, with haggard eyes, dishevelled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betel.
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：
-- At the time he had put no faith in those dreams and was only tantalising himself by their hideous but daring recklessness.
-- There was always a crowd there, always shouting, laughter and abuse, hideous hoarse singing and often fight-ing.
-- Such a hideous dream!'
-- We may note in passing, one peculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him in the matter; they had one strange characteristic: the more final they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at once became in his eyes.
-- Suddenly he start-ed, saved again perhaps from swooning by an uncanny and hideous sight.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.
-- One could almost be positive that there was a malicious leer upon the hideous creature's face, and a mischievous delight in its twitchings.
-- A beholder was convinced that nothing on earth could be more hideous than those he saw on the north side until he went round to the south.
-- and at the same moment bang again went the cannon in the background, followed by a hideous clang of music from a drum, tambourine, clarionet, serpent, hautboy, tenor-viol, and double-bass the only remaining relics of the true and original Weatherbury band venerable worm-eaten instruments, which had celebrated in their own persons the victories of Marlborough, under the fingers of the forefathers of those who played them now.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart beat unwontedly fast; he remembered Vautrin's hideous insinuations.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.
-- I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty, and my bedroom was also freed from its hideous guest.
-- A flash of light-ning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
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