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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fetch me a glass of sherry and a biscuit while I am waiting, for I am actually falling through sheer inanition."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the old man stood there he saw something coming across the moor, something which terrified him so that he lost his wits, and ran and ran until he died of sheer horror and ex-haustion.
-- There it was again upon our left!On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
-- You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what fright-ened him; but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scissors were in her hand, and I had to go down on my knees and implore her... She did it, I know, from sheer mis-chief, to spite her mother, for she is a naughty, capricious girl, a real spoiled child spiteful and mischievous to a de-gree!And then Alexandra wanted to shave her head, not from caprice or mischief, but, like a little fool, simply be-cause Aglaya persuaded her she would sleep better without her hair, and not suffer from headache!And how many suit-ors have they not had during the last five years!Excellent offers, too!What more do they want?
-- Lebedeff really had been busy for some little while; but, as usual, his plans had become too complex to suc-ceed, through sheer excess of ardour.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us.'
-- Agamemnon shed tears as it were a running stream or cataract on the side of some sheer cliff; and thus, with many a heavy sigh he spoke to the Achaeans.
-- I will give him a chariot and a couple of horses, the fleetest that can be found at the ships of the Achaeans, if he will dare this thing; and he will win infinite honour to boot; he must go to the ships and find out whether they are still guarded as heretofore, or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches.'
-- He said he would give me the horses of the noble son of Peleus and his bronze-bedizened chariot; he bade me go through the darkness of the flying night, get close to the enemy, and find out whether the ships are still guarded as heretofore, or whether, now that we have beaten them, the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer ex-haustion are neglecting to keep their watches.'
-- Then, as the soaring falcon poises on the wing high above some sheer rock, and presently swoops down to chase some bird over the plain, even so did Nep-tune lord of the earthquake wing his flight into the air and leave them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I might out of sheer funk and misery."
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：
-- The unspeakable beauty to the touch of the warm, living buttocks!The life within life, the sheer warm, potent loveliness.
-- It is sheer hypoc-risy and farce to say they can rule themselves.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite a walk, by mysterious staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment, hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English house-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur of the Grand Canal laving the doorways below, where his gondolas and gondoliers attended his pleasure, drowsily swinging in a little forest of piles.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own.
-- Besides he all the time looked so easy and indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so broadly gaped open-mouthed at times that the mere sight of such a yawning commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon the crew.
-- As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we thus tore a white gash in the sea, on all sides menaced as we flew, by the crazed creatures to and fro rushing about us; our beset boat was like a ship mobbed by ice-isles in a tempest, and striving to steer through their complicated channels and straits, knowing not at what moment it may be locked in and crushed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One of the frightened servants chose to take it into his head, that he had something to do with this attempt to break into the house; but it's nonsense: sheer absurdity.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh," said Carrie, closing one hand tightly out of sheer nervousness.
-- Hurstwood made the best of a bad lot by keeping on his clothes and pushing away the dirty covering from his head, but at last he dozed in sheer weariness.
-- Then the sheer loneliness of his situation rushed upon him in full.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, by sheer luck, a Carabineer* happened along, who, hearing all that noise, thought that it might be a runaway colt, and stood bravely in the middle of the street, with legs wide apart, firmly resolved to stop it and prevent any trouble.
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