monumental是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 纪念碑式的，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：
-- There, monumental rocks, leaning on their regularly-cut bases, seemed to defy all laws of equilibrium.
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：
-- 'It was like this: I asked myself one day this question what if Napoleon, for instance, had happened to be in my place, and if he had not had Toulon nor Egypt nor the pas-sage of Mont Blanc to begin his career with, but instead of all those picturesque and monumental things, there had simply been some ridiculous old hag, a pawnbroker, who had to be murdered too to get money from her trunk (for his career, you understand).
-- Wouldn't he have felt a pang at its being so far from monumental and 芒聙娄 and sinful, too?
-- Well, I must tell you that I worried myself fearfully over that 'question' so that I was awfully ashamed when I guessed at last (all of a sudden, somehow) that it would not have given him the least pang, that it would not even have struck him that it was not monumental 芒聙娄 that he would not have seen that there was anything in it to pause over, and that, if he had had no other way, he would have strangled her in a minute without thinking about it!Well, I too 芒聙娄 left off thinking about it 芒聙娄 murdered her, following his example.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I look up at the monumental tablets on the wall, and try tothink of Mr. Bodgers late of this parish, and what the feelings ofMrs. Bodgers must have been, when affliction sore, long time Mr.Bodgers bore, and physicians were in vain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell The greatest love story of our times, the story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler...Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental Crusaders as to their legs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went up to the door, which had a projecting canopy in carved work of festooned jack-towels and children's heads with water on the brain, designed after a once-popular monumental pattern, and knocked.
-- What time Young John lay wrapt in peaceful slumber, after composing and arranging the following monumental inscription on his pillow STRANGER!RESPECT THE TOMB OFJOHN CHIVERY, JUNIOR,WHO DIED AT AN ADVANCED AGENOT NECESSARY TO MENTION.HE ENCOUNTERED HIS RIVAL IN A DISTRESSED STATE,AND FELT INCLINEDTO HAVE A ROUND WITH HIM;BUT, FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOVED ONE,CONQUERED THOSE FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS, AND BECAMEMAGNANIMOUS.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something monumental in his ungainliness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
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