grim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严酷的; 讨厌的; 严厉的，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：
-- The 42 A tale of two citiestrade signs (and they were almost as many as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want.
-- Yes,' was the grim reply of Monsieur Defarge.
-- 167 The great door clanged behind him, and Monsieur the Marquis crossed a hall grim with certain old boar-spears, swords, and knives of the chase; grimmer with certain heavy riding-rods and riding-whips, of which many a peas-ant, gone to his benefactor Death, had felt the weight when his lord was angry.
-- All the people of the village were at the fountain, stand-ing about in their depressed manner, and whispering low, but showing no other emotions than grim curiosity and surprise.
-- Young Jerry, walking with the stool under his arm at his father's side along sunny and crowded Fleet-street, was a very different Young Jerry from him of the previous night, running home through darkness and solitude from his grim pursuer.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He entered the shadow of the Anatomy Building, grim as a barracks, still as the dead men lying up there in the dissecting-room.
-- He had not merely to get through each minute as it came; the whole grim thirty minutes were present at the same time.
-- Inchcape Jones ceased being chattery and ever so jolly about picnics, and became almost as grim as Stokes.
-- Down a grim street of coal yards, they found a public square, and here was the stillness not of sleep but of ancient death.
-- By evening, after working fourteen or fifteen hours since dawn, Stokes would hasten to St. Swithin's by motor-cycle--he hated the joggling and the lack of dignity and he found it somewhat dangerous to take curving hill- roads at sixty miles an hour, but this was the quickest way, and till midnight he conferred with Twyford, gave him orders for the next day, arranged his clumsy annotations, and marveled at his grim meekness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How vividly I call to mind the damp about the house, the greencracked flagstones in the court, an old leaky water-butt, and thediscoloured trunks of some of the grim trees, which seemed tohave dripped more in the rain than other trees, and to have blownless in the sun!At one we dined, Mr. Mell and I, at the upper endof a long bare dining-room, full of deal tables and smelling of fat.
-- My apprehensions of being disparaged to the object of myengrossing affection were revived when we went into the drawing-room, by the grim and distant aspect of Miss Murdstone.
-- 'Give Betsey Trotwood's love to 592Blossom, when you come back; and whatever you do, Trot, neverdream of setting Betsey up as a scarecrow, for if I ever saw her inthe glass, she's quite grim enough and gaunt enough in her privatecapacity!'
-- The idea of those Devonshire girls,among the dry law-stationers and the attorneys' offices; and of thetea and toast, and children's songs in that grim atmosphere ofpounce and parchment, red-tape, dusty wafers, ink-jars, brief anddraft paper, law reports, writs, declarations, and bills of costs,seemed almost as pleasantly fanciful as if I had dreamed that theSultan's famous family had been admitted on the roll of attorneys,and had brought the talking bird, the singing tree, and the goldenwater into Gray's Inn Hall.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Oak, turning to Joseph Poorgrass with a very grim look.
-- It is more than probable that she privately and unconsciously respected him a little for this grim fidelity, which had been shown in his tone even more than in his words.
-- A hot breeze, as if breathed from the parted lips of some dragon about to swallow the globe, fanned him from the south, while directly opposite in the north rose a grim misshapen body of cloud, in the very teeth of the wind.
-- The shell had been so thin, so devoid of excrescence, and so closely drawn over the accommodation granted, that the grim character of what was beneath showed through it, as the shape of a body is visible under a winding-sheet.
-- The hollow echo of its fall reminded the waggoner painfully of the grim Leveller.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most heedless passer-by feels the depressing influences of a place where the sound of wheels creates a sensation; there is a grim look about the houses, a suggestion of a jail about those high garden walls.
-- He seemed to delight in scourging the upper classes of society with the lash of his tongue, to take pleasure in convicting it of inconsistency, in mocking at law and order with some grim jest worthy of Juvenal, as if some grudge against the social system rankled in him, as if there were some mystery carefully hidden away in his life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for anyoverweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present anunbroken front to the world.
-- The habit of command satupon him now, a quiet air of self-reliance and authority, and grim lines were beginning to emerge about his mouth.
-- True, grim determination had taken the place of high-hearted hopes, butpeople could still find a silver lining in the cloud.
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