astonishment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 惊奇， 惊讶，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：
-- You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a 15question addressed to me from a man on the brink of de-struction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
-- The astonishment which I had at first experienced onthis discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
-- I suppose some astonishment was exhibited in my countenance, for Mr. Kirwin hastened to say, 'Imme-diately upon your being taken ill, all the papers that were on your person were brought me, and I examined them that I might discover some trace by which I could send to your relations an account of your misfortune and illness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not knowing what to do,--for, in my astonishment I had lost my self-possession,--I reluctantly gave him my hands.
-- Chapter XLIIn vain should I attempt to describe the astonishment and disquiet of Herbert, when he and I and Provis sat down before the fire, and I recounted the whole of the secret.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the seventh saw Snowdrop, and called all his brethren to come and see her; and they cried out with wonder and astonishment and brought their lamps to look at her, and said, 'Good heavens!
-- Next morning, to the astonishment of everyone, he came out again safe and unharmed, and said to the lord of the castle: 'The dogs have revealed to me, in their own language, why they dwell there, and bring evil on the land.
-- There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his court-yard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.
-- But the noise and astonishment of the people, at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed.
-- The astonishment here was much greater than at the sight of my scimitar.
-- That this breed of struldbrugs was peculiar to their country, for there were no such peo-ple either in Balnibarbi or Japan, where he had the honour to be ambassador from his majesty, and found the natives in both those kingdoms very hard to believe that the fact was possible: and it appeared from my astonishment when 266 Gulliver's Travelshe first mentioned the matter to me, that I received it as a thing wholly new, and scarcely to be credited.
-- My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect hu-man figure: the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the 289nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted, by the na-tives suffering their infants to lie grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mothers' shoulders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She glanced up at his face, with mingled astonishment and dread.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- murmured my uncle, to the great astonishment of the worthy Icelander.
-- To our supreme astonishment their adieu took the shape of a formidable bill, in which they even counted the use of the pastoral house, really and truly the most abominable and dirty place I ever was in.
-- I turned to my uncle, silent with astonishment and awe.
-- If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted.
-- CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY It would be altogether impossible for me to give any idea of the utter astonishment which overcame the Professor on making this extraordinary discovery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week had not gone by, when she found him to her astonishment in the Lodge one night, conversing with the turnkey on duty, and to all appearance one of his familiar companions.
-- Bar was lost in astonishment and concern.
-- There was something so indubitably genuine in the wonderful laugh, and series of snorts and puffs, engendered in Mr Pancks's astonishment at, and utter rejection of, the idea, that his being quite in earnest could not be questioned.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sang out, I could not help it now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.
-- If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
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