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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dreadful chill came over him; but the chill was from the fever that had begun long before in his sleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a dreadful thing to gape, but I must do something.
-- Theonly subject, she informed me, on which he ever showed a violenttemper or swore an oath, was this generosity of his; and if it wereever referred to, by any one of them, he struck the table a heavyblow with his right hand (had split it on one such occasion), andswore a dreadful oath that he would be 'Gormed' if he didn't cutand run for good, if it was ever mentioned again.
-- I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found itextremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything likedexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while hewas standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush inthe most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.
-- When this dreadful exordium was over, and Tungayhad stumped out again, Mr. Creakle came to where I sat, and toldme that if I were famous for biting, he was famous for biting, too.
-- Ah, thishas been a dreadful day!We stand alone now- everything is gonefrom us!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh yes, sir,' cried she with ready sympathy, 'how you must miss her!And dear Emma, too! What a dreadful loss to you both! I have been so grieved for you. I could not imagine how you could possibly do without her. It is a sad change indeed. But I hope she is pretty well, sir.'
-- It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there!so far off! and the air so bad!'
-- She would catch a dreadful cold.
-- It would be dreadful to be standing so close!Nothing can be farther from pleasure than to be dancing in a crowd and a crowd in a little room!'
-- We shall have no occasion to open the windows at all not once the whole evening; and it is that dreadful habit of opening the windows, letting in cold air upon heated bodies, which (as you well know, sir) does the mischief.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This dog had originally belonged to a shepherd of inferior morals and dreadful temper, and the result was that George knew the exact degrees of condemnation signified by cursing and swearing of all descriptions better than the wickedest old man in the neighbourhood.
-- The facility with which even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph, is marvellous.
-- And promise me to keep my secret do, Liddy!And do not let them know that I have been crying about him, because it will be dreadful for me, and no good to him, poor thing!"
-- Breaking a key is a dreadful bodement.
-- The clash of discord between mood and matter here was forced painfully home to the heart; and, as in laughter there are more dreadful phases than in tears, so was there in the steadiness of this agonized man an expression deeper than a cry.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I trembled vio-lently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune.
-- The life of my father is in the greatest 164 Frankensteindanger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have re-lated.
-- This imagination was dreadful in itself, but soothing inasmuch as it supposed the safety of my friends.
-- I felt as if I was about the com-mission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
-- Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful sus-pense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, until then 芒聙娄 CHAPTER IV THAT NIGHT AT SUPPER, Scarlett went through the motions of presiding over the table in her mother'sabsence, but her mind was in a ferment over the dreadful news she had heard about Ashley and Melanie.
-- And, most dreadful of all, they could in no way indicate an interest in the company of gentlemen.
-- "It will be dreadful for her!Why can't Phil go?"
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