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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was nothing extraordinary, for though the hammer-headed shark is not classed among the most gigantic of the species, it is always reckoned among the most formidable.
-- Human beings there were none, not a native appeared; not even one of the GUASSOS, the degenerate offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain like a shadow, his flying steed dripping with blood from the cruel thrusts inflicted by the gigantic spurs of his master's naked feet.
-- The geologist would find rich treasures in the tertiary strata here, for it is full of antediluvian remains—enormous bones, which the Indians attribute to some gigantic race that lived in a past age.
-- The level of the waters was sensibly rising, and less than two miles off the gigantic wave reared its crested head.
-- replied Thalcave, pointing with his finger to a species of gigantic walnut-tree, which raised its solitary head above the waters.
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：
-- Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'
-- 'I had no idea that so gigantic a sum was involved,' said he.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now if Pe-ter had only been able to step in at this moment with a red bouquet, his little hopes might have made gigantic strides.
-- It was said that some fool-ish young prince, name unknown, had suddenly come into possession of a gigantic fortune, and had married a French ballet dancer.
-- There is a gigantic thought there.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was all one gigantic jar that ran through him this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth.
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：
-- The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien.
-- Within reach of his arm was the brawny shoulder of a gigantic Indian, whose deep and authoritative voice ap-peared to give directions to the proceedings of his fellows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many years ago, it had had it in its mind to slide down sideways; it had been propped up, however, and was leaning on some half-dozen gigantic crutches: which gymnasium for the neighbouring cats, weather-stained, smoke-blackened, and overgrown with weeds, appeared in these latter days to be no very sure reliance.
-- A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
-- It had reached this point when Mr Merdle came home from his daily occupation of causing the British name to be more and more respected in all parts of the civilised globe capable of the appreciation of world-wide commercial enterprise and gigantic combinations of skill and capital.
-- A craggy track, up which the mules in single file scrambled and turned from block to block, as though they were ascending the broken staircase of a gigantic ruin, was their way now.
-- He said it was indeed highly important to Society that one in the trying situation of unexpectedly finding himself invested with a power for good or for evil in Society, should become, as it were, merged in the superior power of a more legitimate and more gigantic growth, the influence of which (as in the case of our friend at whose board we sat) was habitually exercised in harmony with the best interests of Society.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish?
-- There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
-- And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?
-- We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at least out of the water.
-- Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Mr. Bumble spoke, he raised his cane to the bill above him, and gave three distinct raps upon the words 'five pounds': which were printed thereon in Roman capitals of gigantic size.
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