Extreme

(noun.) the furthest or highest degree of something; 'he carried it to extremes'.

(adj.) most distant in any direction; 'the extreme edge of town' .

(adj.) of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; 'extreme cold'; 'extreme caution'; 'extreme pleasure'; 'utmost contempt'; 'to the utmost degree'; 'in the uttermost distress' .

(adj.) far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; 'an extreme example'; 'extreme temperatures'; 'extreme danger' .

(adj.) beyond a norm in views or actions; 'an extreme conservative'; 'an extreme liberal'; 'extreme views on integration'; 'extreme opinions' .

校对:鲁本

• It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In the most extreme agitation I hurried after the surgeon and brought him with me in my carriage. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• On the extreme right, however, his reserve brigade carried the enemy's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by infantry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Next to McClernand came Prentiss with a raw division, and on the extreme left, Stuart with one brigade of Sherman's division. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The shoes remain in these vulcanizers from six to seven hours, subjected to extreme heat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In seeking this measure, we have to avoid two extremes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Nature has proceeded with caution in this came, and seems to have carefully avoided the inconveniences of two extremes. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• From these two extremes, therefore, the game began to work toward the great middle classes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Meantime Edison had secured his pass over the Grand Trunk Railroad, and spent four days and nights on the journey, suffering extremes of cold and hunger. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Thesiger never goes into extremes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I motioned to him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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