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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked as if he had not a care in the world and that in itself was startlingthese days, when other men wore such worried, preoccupied, grim looks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.
-- After that, it became customary with us to have it as we moved about, and Estella would often join in; though the whole strain was so subdued, even when there were three of us, that it made less noise in the grim old house than the lightest breath of wind.
-- So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called "formed" in the parlor, two and two,--and it was dreadfully like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; "which I meantersay, sir, as I would in preference have carried her to the church myself, along with three or four friendly ones wot come to it with willing harts and arms, but it were considered wot the neighbors would look down on such and would be of opinions as it were wanting in respect."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she saw a lonely house, looking so grim and mysterious, that it did not please her at all.
-- 'I went on through the house from room to room, but they were all empty, and everything was so grim and mys-terious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
-- 'I assure you, Mrs. Powler,' he then said, much exhausted, 'that the father's manner prepared me for a grim and stony maturity.
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a grim hope to the contrary, I stooped over the map.
-- "Well, I suppose not, except it may be a certain amount of pain in the ears," was my rather grim reply.
-- "My dear boy," continued the grim Professor, clasping me to his heart, "you are saved!"
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：
-- This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts.
-- Only she began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble, detestable as false teeth, which stuck up on the hill-side, under Tevershall church, and which she saw with such grim painfulness from the park.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'All seasons are alike to me,' she returned, with a grim kind of luxuriousness.
-- The major characteristics discoverable by the stranger in Mr F.'s Aunt, were extreme severity and grim taciturnity; sometimes interrupted by a propensity to offer remarks in a deep warning voice, which, being totally uncalled for by anything said by anybody, and traceable to no association of ideas, confounded and terrified the Mind.
-- On her applying to them, reassured by this resemblance, for a direction to Miss Dorrit, they made way for her to enter a dark hall it was more like a great grim lamp gone out than anything else where she could hear the distant playing of music and the sound of dancing feet.
-- Like unexceptionable Society, the opposing rows of houses in Harley Street were very grim with one another.
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just before school closed, Jo appeared, wearing a grim expression as she stalked up to the desk, and delivered a let-ter from her mother, then collected Amy's property, and departed, carefully scraping the mud from her boots on the door mat, as if she shook that dust of the place off her feet.
-- When the tea bell rang, Jo appeared, looking so grim and unapproachable that it took all Amy's courage to say meekly... 'Please forgive me, Jo.
-- asked the old gentleman, looking grim and vexed, but trying not to show it.
-- Jo smothered a laugh at the sudden change, and when someone gave a modest tap, opened the door with a grim aspect which was anything but hospitable.
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