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《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.
-- 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."
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：
-- asked Birkin, as they sat in a little, swiftly-running enclosure, and watched the hideous great street.
-- She hated it, she knew how utterly cut off it was, how hideous and how sickeningly mindless.
-- She herself knew too well the actuality of humanity, its hideous actuality.
-- It had a long way to go yet, a long and hideous way.
-- They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, releasing me, 'I see that hideous little villain is not Hareton: I beg your pardon, Nell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the night had worn away thus far (and seldom now until it had) the child would close the window, and steal softly down stairs, thinking as she went that if one of those hideous faces below, which often mingled with her dreams, were to meet her by the way, rendering itself visible by some strange light of its own, how terrified she would be.
-- Having looked out, from among the old furniture, the handsomest and most commodious chair he could possibly find (which he reserved for his own use) and an especially hideous and uncomfortable one (which he considerately appropriated to the accommodation of his friend) he caused them to be carried into this room, and took up his position in great state.
-- The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar.
-- As it was, the dwarf remained upon his back in perfect safety, taunting the dog with hideous faces, and triumphing over him in his inability to advance another inch, though there were not a couple of feet between them.
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