riotous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 骚乱的， 喧扰的, 狂暴的，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing was said for some moments, while a succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it.
-- Riotous and disordered as the universal commotion now was, it soon resolved itself into what seemed a systematic movement; for having clumped together at last in one dense body, they then renewed their onward flight with augmented fleetness.
-- Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.
-- Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
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：
-- 'Give us a song, mates,' shouted someone in the cart and everyone in the cart joined in a riotous song, jingling a tam-bourine and whistling.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie and Jo rowed one boat, Mr. Brooke and Ned the other, while Fred Vaughn, the riotous twin, did his best to upset both by paddling about in a wherry like a disturbed water bug.
-- There were slow boys and bash-ful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people pre-dicted that his admission would ruin the school.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was the luxury which Goriot's daughter had loved too well, the gilding, the ostentatious splendor, the unintelligent luxury of the parvenu, the riotous extravagance of a courtesan.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett saw Melanie standing by her and, with a surge of dislike, she realized that the fly inthe ointment of Atlanta would be this slight little person in black mourning dress, her riotous dark curls subdued tomatronly smoothness and a loving smile of welcome and happiness on her heart-shaped face.
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