sheer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 完全的, 十足的; 极薄的, 透明的; 陡峭的, 垂直的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No motives but motives of sheer patriotism?
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：
-- I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.'
-- He knew very much about the matter but he was so im-patient that for sheer longing he got a pain in his back, and this with trees is the same thing as a headache with us.
-- 'I sing so well,' said he, 'that sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from infancy, and yet got no house built of cards to live in, grew thinner than they were before for sheer vexa-tion when they heard me.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By sheer brass and obstinacy he had, at fourteen, become the unofficial, also decidedly unpaid, assistant to the Doc, and while the Doc was on a country call he took charge--though what there was to take charge of, no one could ever make out.
-- The Tapestry School claims that luxurious chairs for waiting patients, handsome hand-painted pictures, a bookcase jammed with the world's best literature in expensively bound sets, together with cut-glass vases and potted palms, produce an impression of that opulence which can come only from sheer ability and knowledge.
-- A sheer wall, thirty blank stories of glass and limestone, down in the pinched triangle whence New York rules a quarter of the world.
-- It was praised in Paris and Brussels and Cambridge as much as in New York, for its insight and for "the clarity and to perhaps be unscientifically enthusiastic, the sheer delight and style of its presentation," as Professor Berkeley Wurtz put it; which may be indicated by quoting the first paragraph of the paper: In a preliminary publication, I have reported a marked qualitative destructive effect of the radiations from radium emanations on Bacteriophage-anti-Shiga.
-- Hers was sheer straight white silk and cherished skin.
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：
-- 242 Crime and Punishment 'Why, Mr. Razumihin, I do believe you'd let anybody beat you from sheer benevolence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a schoolcarried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunceor not, there is not likely to be much learnt.
-- Sweeping gustsof rain came up before this storm, like showers of steel; and, atthose times, when there was any shelter of trees or lee walls to begot, we were fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing thestruggle.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel meditated, and so deeply that he brought small furrows into his forehead by sheer force of reverie.
-- "You know, Gabriel, this is what I cannot get off my conscience that I once seriously injured him in sheer idleness.
-- The prompters were a few merciful men who had perhaps too feelingly considered the facts latterly unearthed, and the result was that evidence was taken which it was hoped might remove the crime in a moral point of view, out of the category of wilful murder, and lead it to be regarded as a sheer outcome of madness.
-- As the summer drew on she passed more of her time in the open air, and began to examine into farming matters from sheer necessity, though she never rode out or personally superintended as at former times.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.
-- When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coal replied: 'I fortunate-ly sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain, I should have been burnt to ashes.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned round on my side, and from sheer exhaustion fell into a heavy sleep disturbed by dreams of water!And I awoke unrefreshed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effron-tery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
-- The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was!And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray!I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks.
-- His moment of sheer thrill with the two Chatterleys, when he simply carried Connie and Clifford away, was one of the supreme moments of Michaelis' life.
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