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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan, to spare Lady Helena the attacks of these witches, walked straight up to Kai-Koumou, and pointing to the hideous group:"Send them away," said he.
-- The unhappy Maories, bleeding and excited, were hideous to look upon.
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：
-- Then Holmes and I both fired together, and the creature gave a hideous howl, which showed that one at least had hit him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Oh, how mean and hideous of him to feel this conviction, this presentiment!
-- She opened her mouth wide with the pain, and I saw the beast lying across her tongue, and out of its body, which was almost bitten in two, came a hideous white-looking substance, oozing out into Norma's mouth; it was of the consistency of a crushed black-beetle.
-- Mr. Hippolyte has had letters, too, and all from the individual whose name begins with an A.,' smirked Lebedeff, with a hideous grin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about, and the earth was red with their blood.
-- Their dying groans rose hideous as the sword smote them, and the river ran red with blood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These creatures I had seen were the victims of some hideous ex-periment.
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- Few prowled by day, most of them slept, and the island might have seemed deserted to a new-comer; but at night the air was hideous with their calls and howling.
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：
-- Amid the unnatural shower, a few hungry ravens struggled with the gale; but no sooner was the green ocean of woods which stretched beneath them, passed, than they gladly stopped, at random, to their hideous banquet.
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：
-- The hideous lust that pervades the air is oppressive and horrible, and yet there is something mysterious in the sight which haunts and troubles you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, at this moment, as if to bear witness to the truth of the sailor's words, two or three quadrumana showed themselves at the windows, from which they had pushed back the shutters, and saluted the real proprietors of the place with a thousand hideous grimaces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She's tired you see, Mrs Quilp,' said the dwarf, squinting in a hideous manner to imply that his wife was to follow his lead.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine.
-- As the wretched creature mumbled and chuckled in her hideous merriment, the undertaker turned to go away.
-- said the Jew, shrugging up his shoulders, and distorting every feature with a hideous grin.
-- As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
-- Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellowing and plunging of the oxen, the bleating of sheep, the grunting and squeaking of pigs, the cries of hawkers, the shouts, oaths, and quarrelling on all sides; the ringing of bells and roar of voices, that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping and yelling; the hideous and discordant dim that resounded from every corner of the market; and the unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figures constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng; rendered it a stunning and bewildering scene, which quite confounded the senses.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, Xury's advice was good, and I took it; we dropped our little anchor, and lay still all night; I say still, for we slept none; for in two or three hours we saw vast great creatures (we knew not what to call them) of many sorts, come down to the sea-shore and run into the water, wallowing and washing themselves for the pleasure of cooling themselves; and they made such hideous howl-ings and yellings, that I never indeed heard the like.
-- But it is impossible to describe the horrid noises, and hideous cries and howlings that were raised, as well upon the edge of the shore as higher within the country, upon the noise or report of the gun, a thing I have some reason to believe those creatures had never heard before: this con-vinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally ap-prehensive of the danger of it.
-- He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.
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