excessive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 过多的； 过分的； 额外，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：
-- If excessive consumption threatens to exterminate the fish of a river, or ruin the early crop of sweet potatoes, these things are put under the protection of the taboo.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He accordingly resolved to manufacture and employ pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at one hundred and seventy degrees instead of two hundred and forty, and lastly, an instantaneous deflagration which might damage the firearms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were alone together, once again; every object was bright and fresh; nothing reminded them, otherwise than by contrast, of the monotony and constraint they had left behind; church towers and steeples, frowning and dark at other times, now shone in the sun; each humble nook and corner rejoiced in light; and the sky, dimmed only by excessive distance, shed its placid smile on everything beneath.
-- Straightway, the stage would be set up in front of Mr Brass's house; the single gentleman would establish himself at the first floor window; and the entertainment would proceed, with all its exciting accompaniments of fife and drum and shout, to the excessive consternation of all sober votaries of business in that silent thoroughfare.
-- The messenger soon returned at the head of a long row of urchins, great and small, who, being confronted by the bachelor at the house door, fell into various convulsions of politeness; clutching their hats and caps, squeezing them into the smallest possible dimensions, and making all manner of bows and scrapes, which the little old gentleman contemplated with excessive satisfaction, and expressed his approval of by a great many nods and smiles.
-- The excessive audacity of this retort so overpowered Mr Chuckster, and so moved his tender regard for his friend's honour, that he declared, if he were not restrained by official considerations, he must certainly have annihilated Kit upon the spot; a resentment of the affront which he did consider, under the extraordinary circumstances of aggravation attending it, could but have met with the proper sanction and approval of a jury of Englishmen, who, he had no doubt, would have returned a verdict of justifiable Homicide, coupled with a high testimony to the morals and character of the Avenger.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then this boiling water, this terrible and excessive heat?
-- It is perpetually undergoing the modifications caused by the decomposition of internal matter, the agitation consequent on the flowing of extensive liquid currents, the excessive action of magnetism which tends to shake it incessantly, at a time when even the multitudinous beings on its surface do not suspect the seething process to be going on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor fellow!It was melancholy to reflect what Amy must have undergone from the excessive tediousness of his Society wandering and babbling on, poor dear estimable creature, wandering and babbling on if it had not been for the relief she had had in Mrs General.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced such excessive dismay.
-- By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A short pause followed this speech, and Mrs. Hurst began again: 'I have a excessive regard for Miss Jane Bennet, she is re-ally a very sweet girl, and I wish with all my heart she were well settled.
-- But Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
-- She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimen-sions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain, Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family preju-dice to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
-- What he means to do I am sure I know not; but his excessive distress will not allow him to pursue any measure in the best and safest way, and Colonel Forster is obliged to be at Brighton again to-morrow evening.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; par-ticularly, that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate; our principal trading being upon the coast, from latitude of 15 degrees north even to the line itself.
-- The excessive hardness of the wood, and my having no other way, made me a long while upon this ma-chine, for I worked it effectually by little and little into the form of a shovel or spade; the handle exactly shaped like ours in England, only that the board part having no iron shod upon it at bottom, it would not last me so long; how-ever, it served well enough for the uses which I had occasion to put it to; but never was a shovel, I believe, made after that fashion, or so long in making.
-- I worked excessive hard these three or four months to get my wall done; and the 14th of April I closed it up, contriv-ing to go into it, not by a door but over the wall, by a ladder, that there might be no sign on the outside of my habitation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Dashwood entered into all their feelings with a warmth which left her no inclination for checking this excessive display of them.
-- Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
-- The sort of desperate calmness with which this was said, lasted no longer than while she spoke, and was immediately followed by a return of the same excessive affliction.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I've been sick, I told you," he said, peevishly, almost resenting her excessive pity.
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