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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My person was hideous and my stature gigantic.
-- 'Accursed creator!Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in dis-gust?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, sitting on the stump, thought of those words which had made her so happy, and suddenly they took onanother meaning, a hideous meaning.
-- A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of braid to enliven them, no flower or ribbon orlace or even jewelry, except onyx mourning brooches or necklaces made from the deceased's hair.
-- But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up anddown the quiet streets like darting bats.
-- Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.
-- It was a hideous place like a plague-stricken city so quiet, so dreadfully quietafter the din of the siege.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly afterwards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodic whooping-cough dance, and rushing out at the door; he then became visible through the window, violently plunging and expectorating, making the most hideous faces, and apparently out of his mind.
-- I think Miss Pocket was conscious that the sight of me involved her in the danger of being goaded to madness, and perhaps tearing off her cap,--which was a very hideous one, in the nature of a muslin mop,--and strewing the ground with her hair,--which assuredly had never grown on her head.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- When he had done that and looked round again, the two pieces were joined together, and a hideous man was sitting in his place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her coun-tenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our meal concluded, we went to the Kongens-Nye-Torw; to the king's magnificent palace; to the beautiful bridge over the canal near the Museum; to the immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen with its hideous naval groups; to the castle of Rosenberg; and to all the other lions of the place-none of which my uncle even saw, so absorbed was he in his anticipated triumphs.
-- He was nursing his wrath to keep it warm!His eyes fixed on the black and foggy atmosphere, his complexion hideous with suppressed passion.
-- These hideous monsters ruled everything in the seas of the secondary period, which formed the strata of which the Jura mountains are composed.
-- Look at his hideous jaws, and that row of monstrous teeth.
-- We stood still--surprised, stupefied, terror-stricken at the sight of this group of fearful marine monsters, more hideous in the reality than in my dream.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How bare the little room was!Yet over his head on the wall hung a hideous en-larged photograph of a young married couple, apparently him and a bold-faced young woman, no doubt his wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a hideous little street of dead wall, stables, and dunghills, with lofts over coach-houses inhabited by coachmen's families, who had a passion for drying clothes and decorating their window-sills with miniature turnpike-gates.
-- Although Mr Pancks's hair was standing up like strong wire, he gave it another double-handed impulse in the perpendicular direction, and smiled at his proprietor in a most hideous manner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah's head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.
-- Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the wrath to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh!goodness gracious!steer clear of the fiery pit!"
-- The Albino is as well made as other men has no substantive deformity and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion.
-- Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me?"
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