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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entire ship's crew were undergoing a nervous excitement, of which I can give no idea: they could not eat, they could not sleep twenty times a day, a misconception or an optical illusion of some sailor seated on the taffrail, would cause dreadful perspirations, and these emotions, twenty times repeated, kept us in a state of excitement so violent that a reaction was unavoidable.
-- "Undoubtedly," replied the captain, "if it possesses such dreadful power, it is the most terrible animal that ever was created.
-- Near one o'clock in the morning, I was seized with dreadful fatigue.
-- Dreadful nightmares beset me; I saw in these mysterious asylums a world of unknown animals, amongst which this submarine boat seemed to be of the same kind, living, moving, and formidable as they.
-- Struck to the heart, it struggled in dreadful convulsions, the shock of which overthrew Conseil.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He is such a dreadful satanist, isn't he?"
-- Birkin was white and abstract, unnatural, Gerald was smiling with a constant bright, amused, cold light in his eyes, leaning a little protectively towards the Pussum, who was very handsome, and soft, unfolded like some red lotus in dreadful flowering nakedness, vainglorious now, flushed with wine and with the excitement of men.
-- She was very handsome, flushed, and confident in dreadful knowledge.
-- It was a dreadful tyranny, an obsession in her, to know all he knew.
-- "There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; there came a constant smell of luncheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the journey took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, literally for miles, dreadful boys ran with us on the shore, in that awful Thames mud, going in up to the waist they had their trousers turned back, and they went up to their hips in that indescribable Thames mud, their faces always turned to us, and screaming, exactly like carrion creatures, screaming ''Ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir,' exactly like some foul carrion objects, perfectly obscene; and paterfamilias on board, laughing when the boys went right down in that awful mud, occasionally throwing them a ha'penny.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 9 HE entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of stowing his son sway in the kitchen cupboard.
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：
-- As to the bottles, they each took a pair of plates, which they hastily fitted on as wings, and so, with forks for legs, went fluttering about in all directions: 'and very like birds they look,' Alice thought to herself, as well as she could in the dreadful confusion that was beginning.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dreadful stories they were about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main.
-- And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.
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