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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This done, she begged them in a kind of deep despair to drink; then laughed, then cried, then took a little sip herself, then laughed and cried again, and took a little more; and so, by degrees, the worthy lady went on, increasing in smiles and decreasing in tears, until at last she could not laugh enough at Miss Monflathers, who, from being an object of dire vexation, became one of sheer ridicule and absurdity.
-- The whole of which appearances were so unexpected and bewildering, that Mr Swiveller, when he had taken two oranges and a little jelly, and had seen the strong man walk off with the empty basket, plainly leaving all that abundance for his use and benefit, was fain to lie down and fall asleep again, from sheer inability to entertain such wonders in his mind.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
-- Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
-- All were strangely shaped, and the Spy-glass, which was by three or four hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every side and then suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to put a statue on.
-- The air, besides, was fresh and stirring, and this, under the sheer sunbeams, was a wonderful refreshment to our senses.
-- Sheer above us rose the Spyglass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to sheer off, but the supernatural animal approached with a velocity double her own.
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 hated the sheer African thing.
-- She hated him in a despair that shattered her and broke her down, so that she suffered sheer dissolution like a corpse, and was unconscious of everything save the horrible sickness of dissolution that was taking place within her, body and soul.
-- I always expect her to sheer off to Damascus or San Francisco; she's a bird of paradise.
-- Then in a sudden motion, she lifted her arms and rushed sheer upon the long-horned bullocks, in shuddering irregular runs, pausing for a second and looking at them, then lifting her hands and running forward with a flash, till they ceased pawing the ground, and gave way, snorting with terror, lifting their heads from the ground and flinging themselves away, galloping off into the evening, becoming tiny in the distance, and still not stopping.
-- "Tell me then, if we are running into anything," she replied, in that very quiet, toneless voice of sheer intimacy.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!A sad pity I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.'
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