massive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 大而重的; 大量的, 大规模的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke.
-- Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke.
-- Cannon, muskets, fire and smoke; but, still the deep 306 A tale of two citiesditch, the single drawbridge, the massive stone walls, and the eight great towers.
-- Flashing weapons, blaz-ing torches, smoking waggonloads of wet straw, hard work at neighbouring barricades in all directions, shrieks, vol-leys, execrations, bravery without stint, boom smash and rattle, and the furious sounding of the living sea; but, still the deep ditch, and the single drawbridge, and the massive stone walls, and the eight great towers, and still Defarge of the wine-shop at his gun, grown doubly hot by the service of Four fierce hours.
-- A white flag from within the fortress, and a parley this dimly perceptible through the raging storm, nothing audible in it suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher, and swept Defarge of the wine-shop over the lowered drawbridge, past the massive stone outer walls, in among the eight great towers surrendered!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Folding the letter and smoothing it with a massive ivory knife, and putting it in an envelope with the money, he rang the bell with the gratification it always afforded him to use the well arranged appointments of his writing-table.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch ordered tea to be brought to the study, and playing with the massive paper- knife, he moved to his easy chair, near which there had been placed ready for him a lamp and the French work on Egyptian hieroglyphics that he had begun.
-- Sviazhsky's study was a huge room, surrounded by bookcases and with two tables in it--one a massive writing table, standing in the middle of the room, and the other a round table, covered with recent numbers of reviews and journals in different languages, ranged like the rays of a star round the lamp.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck; at one end a piston-rod worked up and down; and at the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles.
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：
-- She stared at the gold eye-glass which Pyotr Petrovitch held in his left hand and at the massive and extremely handsome ring with a yellow stone on his middle finger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a broad panelled staircase,with massive balustrades of some dark wood; cornices above thedoors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers; and broad seatsin the windows.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak gazed with misgiving at eight naked and unprotected ricks, massive and heavy with the rich produce of one-half the farm for that year.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hauled from his pockets a heavy gold watch with dangling seals, a small miniature of the long dead Mrs.Wilkes and a pair of massive cuff buttons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners.
-- "Gentlemen," said Mr. Jaggers, deliberately putting down the glass, and hauling out his gold repeater by its massive chain, "I am exceedingly sorry to announce that it's half past nine."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long before the existence of volcanoes, it was composed of a solid body of massive trap rock lifted bodily and slowly out of the sea, by the action of the centrifugal force at work in the earth.
-- This well was a kind of narrow opening in the massive granite of the kind known as a fissure.
-- They grew in countless thousands--the light could not make its way through their massive substance, and beneath them reigned a gloomy and mystic darkness.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Today she could almost feel it in her own body, the huge heave of the sap in the massive trees, up-wards, up, up to the bud-a, there to push into little flamey oak-leaves, bronze as blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A whisper passed among the elder collegians that he had been seen at a mock auction in Moorfields, pretending to buy plated articles for massive silver, and paying for them with the greatest liberality in bank notes; but it never reached her ears.
-- Here, in dry clothes and scented linen, with sleeked hair, a great ring on each forefinger and a massive show of watch-chain, Mr Blandois waiting for his dinner, lolling on a window-seat with his knees drawn up, looked (for all the difference in the setting of the jewel) fearfully and wonderfully like a certain Monsieur Rigaud who had once so waited for his breakfast, lying on the stone ledge of the iron grating of a cell in a villainous dungeon at Marseilles.
-- 'Heavy for use, but massive and genuine.
-- Again, there would be places where they stayed the week together in splendid rooms, had banquets every day, rode out among heaps of wonders, walked through miles of palaces, and rested in dark corners of great churches; where there were winking lamps of gold and silver among pillars and arches, kneeling figures dotted about at confessionals and on the pavements; where there was the mist and scent of incense; where there were pictures, fantastic images, gaudy altars, great heights and distances, all softly lighted through stained glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways.
-- It was of massive stone darkened by ages, built in a wild fancy which came from the East to that collection of wild fancies; and Little Dorrit was little indeed, leaning on the broad-cushioned ledge, and looking over.
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