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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were Ando-Peruvians, of an olive tint, of medium stature and massive form, with a low forehead, almost circular face, thin lips, high cheekbones, effeminate features, and cold expression.
-- The huge chariot, with its primitive wheels and massive planks, pleased her particularly.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As is often the case in Petersburg houses, it was narrow and very dark, and turned around a massive stone column.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles next offered the massive iron quoit which mighty Eetion had erewhile been used to hurl, until Achilles had slain him and carried it off in his ships along with other spoils.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held out his hand to the gang-way by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey-haired man in dirty-blue flannels, who had apparently just come aboard.
-- Then Moreau appeared, his massive white face all the more terrible for the blood that trickled from his forehead.
-- Then I shut the door, locked it, and went into the enclosure where Moreau lay beside his latest victims, the staghounds and the llama and some other wretched brutes, with his massive face calm even after his terrible death, and with the hard eyes open, staring at the dead white moon above.
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：
-- He had a deep, resonant voice, fitted to his massive frame, and a keen sense of the dramatic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.
-- At the point where the sailor had left his raft of wood, it began to run between the two high granite walls; but if on the left bank the wall remained clear and abrupt, on the right bank, on the contrary, it sank gradually, the massive sides changed to isolated rocks, the rocks to stones, the stones to shingle running to the extremity of the point.
-- In isolated groups rose fir-trees, which, some hundred feet lower, at the bottom of the narrow gorges, formed massive shades almost impenetrable to the sun's rays.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button.
-- But even this honour and distinction is not all, for the single gentleman forthwith pulls out of his pocket a massive silver watch going hard, and right to half a second and upon the back of this watch is engraved Kit's name, with flourishes all over; and in short it is Kit's watch, bought expressly for him, and presented to him on the spot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
-- said the red-headed woman, pressing her face against the grating, her whole massive frame shaking.
-- The President, Nikitin, with a closely shaved, narrow face and steel-gray eyes; Wolf, with thin lips and small white hands, with which he was turning over the papers before him; then Skovorodnikoff, stout, massive and pock-marked, and a very learned jurist, and finally, B脙漏, the same partriarchal old man, who was the last to arrive.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilisation, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting.
-- If 'the sausage' as the called it, stood on end, it was a sign that he might approach and repose, but if it lay flat across the sofa, woe to man, woman, or child who dared disturb it!That evening Jo forgot to barricade her corner, and had not been in her seat five minutes, before a massive form appeared beside her, and with both arms spread over the sofa back, both long legs stretched out be-fore him, Laurie exclaimed, with a sigh of satisfaction... 'Now, this is filling at the price.'
-- A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet's mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us, levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question.
-- Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale's which the Right Whale's sadly lacks.
-- As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
-- As good luck would have it, they had had a whale alongside a day or two previous, and the great tackles were still aloft, and the massive curved blubber-hook, now clean and dry, was still attached to the end.
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