gigantic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 巨大的, 庞大的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But little Den-mark must take care what it is about, and not run counter to the moon; that great realm, that might in an ill-humor be-stir itself, and dash down a hail-storm in our faces, or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its gigantic basin.
-- The gigantic pine-forests, on the pointed crags, seemed almost like little tufts of heather, colored by the sur-rounding clouds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon her gigantic hull appeared passing along between the banks, and eleven o'clock struck as she anchored in the road.
-- Then he offered to carry Sir Francis to Allahabad, which the brigadier gratefully accepted, as one traveller the more would not be likely to fatigue the gigantic beast.
-- Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire.
-- The locomotive, its great funnel emitting a weird light, with its sharp bell, and its cow-catcher extended like a spur, mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades, and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And one day he peeped out, beneath his new horn-rimmed almost- middle-aged glasses, to see a gigantic motor crawling up their woods road.
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：
-- One night, when out in a festive company, he had with one blow laid a gigantic policeman on his back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again herlarge bonnet (very disproportionate to her figure) went backwardsand forwards, in her swaying of her little body to and fro; while amost gigantic bonnet rocked, in unison with it, upon the wall.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It radiated upwards into their faces, and sent over half the plantation gigantic shadows of both man and woman, each dusky shape becoming distorted and mangled upon the tree-trunks till it wasted to nothing.
-- Men were shouting, dogs were barking, with greatest animation, but the thronging travellers in so long a journey had grown nearly indifferent to such terrors, though they still bleated piteously at the unwontedness of their experiences, a tall shepherd rising here and there in the midst of them, like a gigantic idol amid a crowd of prostrate devotees.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but ap-parently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
-- As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
-- A flash of light-ning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
-- A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pis-tols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Straining her eyes in the darkness she dimly discerned a sight which had grownfamiliar through that terrible day two tall chimneys, like gigantic tombstones towering above the ruined second floor,and broken unlit windows blotching the walls like still, blind eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
-- The second piece was the last new grand comic Christmas pantomime, in the first scene of which, it pained me to suspect that I detected Mr. Wopsle with red worsted legs under a highly magnified phosphoric countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged in the manufacture of thunderbolts in a mine, and displaying great cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps it might only be a gigantic hoax.
-- At length a time came when despite the enormous thickness and weight of the upper crust, the mechanical forces of the combustible gases below became so great, that they actually upheaved the weighty back and made for themselves huge and gigantic shafts.
-- I saw him, his arms spread out to their widest extent, his legs stretched apart, standing upright before an enormous pedestal, high enough and black enough to bear a gigantic statue of Pluto.
-- As I did so I made out a brilliant little dot, at the extremity of this long, gigantic telescope.
-- Nothing could make itself heard through these gigantic walls of granite.
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