hell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地狱, 阴间, 苦境，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I have seen more than that,' said he, 'for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have suf-fered, you have passed through hell and emerged pure, and that is very much.
-- Just as I was losing consciousness, tears in my soul, tears on my face (I remem-ber how I lay there sobbing), an idea from hell struck me.
-- My dear fellow, my house is simply a hell just now, a sort of sphinx has tak-en up its abode there.
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Him do I hate even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart; therefore I will say what I mean.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I realized that I was in that little hell of mine again, now half swamped; and looking back over the gunwale, I saw the schooner standing away from me, with the red-haired captain mocking at me over the taff-rail, and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach.
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：
-- It seemed, for near a minute, as if the demons of hell had possessed themselves of the air about them, and were venting their savage humors in barbarous sounds.
-- David raised his tall person in the midst of the infernal din, with a hand on either ear, exclaiming: 'Whence comes this discord!Has hell broke loose, that man should utter sounds like these!'
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：
-- "What the hell do you suppose I care?"
-- "My dear fellow, what the hell do you suppose I care what you think of me?"
-- "What the hell do you mean?"
-- "I bet he found it hell to paint."
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：
-- The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence.
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：
-- What in the name of hell have you been doing?'
-- She had the very hell of a will of her own, as her husband had found out.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
-- Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire.
-- As they narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.
-- Hold, don't speak!And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell for ever, and without a body?
-- A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One of those fellows on the Fifth Avenue line must have had a hell of a time, according to the papers," drawled another.
-- "It's hell these days, ain't it?"
-- What the hell do you mean?
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