dreadful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可怕的； 令人敬畏的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills--a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.
-- Martin detested the reek of formaldehyde; that and some dreadful subtle other odor seemed to cling about him outside the dissecting-room; but he smoked cigarettes to forget it, and in a week he was exploring arteries with youthful and altogether unholy joy.
-- "Yes, I know; it's dreadful the way people don't have ideals about their work.
-- Look at a surgeon like Dr. Loizeau, riding up to the hospital in a lovely car with a chauffeur in uniform, and all his patients simply worshiping him, and then your Max Gottlieb-- somebody pointed him out to me the other day, and he had on a dreadful old suit, and I certainly thought he could stand a hair- cut."
-- Why didn't he get on with it, on to the entertainingly dreadful moment of inoculating the pig?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dreadful apparition, why do you trou-ble me?'
-- and in the hall appeared the school-master himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.
-- To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
-- Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy com-mand: for this is thy dominion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'More fit for that, I think, than to remain in this city, so dreadful to him.'
-- It's a dreadful remembrance.
-- 'You hadn't taken to the dreadful business then, Jerry.'
-- And it was now, about little Lucie's sixth birthday, that they began to have an awful sound, as of a great storm in France with a dreadful sea rising.
-- 'Thank God,' said Mr. Lorry, clasping his hands, 'that no one near and dear to me is in this dreadful town to-night.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.
-- 'It is the most dreadful moment of my life: the whole world is leagued against me!'
-- When the patrol came up, all his comrades, who com-prehended nothing of the whole affair, were seized with a dreadful fright, for dead be was, and he remained so.
-- The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
-- 'That was a dreadful snow-storm"; and he sighed again, and was silent.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even if we remain in the same house, we are strangers--strangers forever!She repeated again with special significance the word so dreadful to her.
-- He felt that his heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the mare, longed to move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious.
-- What was the dreadful thing I dreamed?
-- "And the something turned round, and I saw it was a peasant with a disheveled beard, little, and dreadful looking.
-- "Take them, take these dreadful books!"
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