outrageous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 残暴的, 蛮横的，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：
-- "Indeed, I will never own anything so outrageous as that," replied Paganel.
-- I hope then I shall make some outrageous mistake before long, which will give you a good laugh.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, out of spite, he will come out with something so outrageous that even Liza-betha Prokofievna will not be able to stand it.'
-- I confess that I am very much to blame myself; I do not conceal the fact; but the conduct, the outrageous be-haviour of this woman, must really be kept within limits, by the police if necessary, and I am just on my way now to talk the question over and make some arrangements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were held in an amphitheater whose seats curved so far around that the lecturer could not see both ends at once, and while Dr. Robertshaw, continuing to drone about blood circulation, was peering to the right to find out who was making that outrageous sound like a motor horn, far over on the left Clif Clawson would rise and imitate him, with sawing arm and stroking of imaginary whiskers.
-- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer--a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.
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：
-- It was not exactly spirituality that was obvious, though the screen of the flesh seemed almost transparent, because there was in his face an outrageous sensuality; but, though it sounds nonsense, it seemed as though his sensuality were curiously spiritual.
-- If I have succeeded at all in giving the complicated impression that Strickland made on me, it will not seem outrageous to say that I felt he was at once too great and too small for love.
-- I have narrated all this as best I could, because I like the contrast of these episodes with the life that I had seen Strickland live in Ashley Gardens when he was occupied with stocks and shares; but I am aware that Captain Nichols was an outrageous liar, and I dare say there is not a word of truth in anything he told me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These observations, andindeed the greater part of the observations made that evening,were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that MasterMicawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on withboth arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddlesunder the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, orproducing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous tonature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, ordeveloping his restlessness of limb in some other formincompatible with the general interests of society; and by MasterMicawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.
-- A more outrageous person I never did see.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What devouring passions had darkened that bulbous countenance, which would have seemed outrageous as a caricature?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the Bleeding Hearts were kind hearts; and when they saw the little fellow cheerily limping about with a good-humoured face, doing no harm, drawing no knives, committing no outrageous immoralities, living chiefly on farinaceous and milk diet, and playing with Mrs Plornish's children of an evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction on his head.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
-- To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a most domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an uplifted cooper's club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near by.
-- True, among the more upright and honorable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After I had observed the outrageous usage of the three men by the insolent seamen, I observed the fellows run scattering about the island, as if they wanted to see the country.
-- As the ship lay almost two leagues from the shore, we had a full view of them as the came, and a plain sight even of their faces; because the tide having set them a little to the east of the other boat, they rowed up under shore, to come to the same place where the other had landed, and where the boat lay; by this means, I say, we had a full view of them, and the captain knew the persons and characters of all the men in the boat, of whom, he said, there were three very honest fellows, who, he was sure, were led into this con-spiracy by the rest, being over-powered and frightened; but that as for the boatswain, who it seems was the chief officer among them, and all the rest, they were as outrageous as any of the ship's crew, and were no doubt made desperate in their new enterprise; and terribly apprehensive he was that they would be too powerful for us.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
-- Then the Reverend Hobson opened up, slow and solemn, and begun to talk; and straight off the most outrageous row busted out in the cellar a body ever heard; it was only one dog, but he made a most powerful racket, and he kept it up right along; the parson he had to stand there, over the coffin, and wait you couldn't hear yourself think.
-- So he glided along, and the powwow and racket get- ting more and more outrageous all the time; and at last, when he had gone around two sides of the room, he disappears down cel-lar.
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