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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- Not only was there no trace of her former irony, of her old hatred and enmity, and of that dreadful laughter, the very recollection of which sent a cold chill down Totski's back to this very day; but she seemed charmed and really glad to have the opportunity of talking seriously with him for once in a way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dreadful thing that I was only beginning to realise was, that over all this island there was now no safe place where I could be alone and secure to rest or sleep.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Raising a shout of triumph, he sprang toward the defenseless Cora, sending his keen axe as the dreadful precursor of his approach.
-- As the weapon passed slowly into his heart he even smiled, as if in joy at having found death less dreadful than he had anticipated, and fell heavily on his face, at the feet of the rigid and un-yielding form of Uncas.
-- In the midst of these prolonged and savage yells, a chief pro-claimed, in a high voice, that the captive was condemned to endure the dreadful trial of torture by fire.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she's alone and humiliated and broken it would be dreadful if she had nowhere to go."
-- "It would be dreadful if something terrible happened and I were not at hand."
-- I tried to imagine what had happened to drive the poor creature to that dreadful step.
-- Chapter XXXVIIThe circumstances of Blanche Stroeve's death necessitated all manner of dreadful formalities, but at last we were allowed to bury her.
-- I had nearly committed a dreadful crime.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This threat caused one of the young ladies, she being of a weak and trembling temperament, to shed tears, and for this offense they were both filed off immediately, with a dreadful promptitude that struck terror into the souls of all the pupils.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- 'It's a dreadful heavy load, Sir,' the boy pleaded.
-- There was the dreadful shadow, pausing at the bottom of the steps.
-- With which words, and knocking his hat over his eyes as if for the purpose of shutting out even a glimpse of the dreadful visitation, Mr Brass rushed from the house and hurried away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The din of voices with the rattle of chains, and the dreadful odor always produced in Nekhludoff the tormenting feeling of some moral nausea, turning into physical nausea.
-- "There is nothing dreadful about it," said Novodvoroff, overhearing the conversation.
-- Marriage with you would be a dreadful fall to her, worse than all her past.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
-- I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She started to her feet and sprang across the little brook in her terror,and had just time to see the Lion and the Unicorn rise to their feet, with angry looks at being interrupted in their feast, before she dropped to her knees, and put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to shut out the dreadful uproar.
-- But she couldn't help thinking to herself, 'What dreadful nonsense we are talking!'
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