firmly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 坚定地， 坚固地，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：
-- The enormous and twisted trunk of this tree is planted firmly in the soil, not only by its great roots, but still more by its vigorous shoots, which fasten it down in the most tenacious manner.
-- Holding his watch close to the insect, Paganel saw distinctly that the time was 10 P. M.On rejoining the Major and his three sailors, Glenarvan warned them of the approaching storm, and advised them to secure themselves in their beds of branches as firmly as possible, for there was no doubt that after the first clap of thunder the wind would become unchained, and the OMBU would be violently shaken.
-- Glenarvan could fancy the caimans' teeth were tearing it up from the soil; for as he and his companions held on, each clinging firmly to the other, they felt the towering OMBU give way, and the next minute it fell right over with a terrible hissing noise, as the flaming branches touched the foaming water.
-- Their examination then commenced, after Paganel had settled his spectacles firmly on his nose, drawn himself up to his full height, and put on a solemn voice becoming to a professor.
-- "A mere chance, and nothing more," replied the quartermaster, looking firmly at the Major.
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 fact was, Totski was at that time a man of fifty years of age; his position was solid and respectable; his place in society had long been firmly fixed upon safe foundations; he loved himself, his personal comforts, and his position better than all the world, as every respectable gentleman should!
-- He wanted Colia, but firmly resolved to leave the general behind.
-- 'You will remark, gentleman, that in saying that I could not recount the story of my theft so as to be believed, Afanasy Ivanovitch has very ingeniously im-plied that I am not capable of thieving (it would have been bad taste to say so openly); and all the time he is probably firmly convinced, in his own mind, that I am very well capa-ble of it!But now, gentlemen, to business!Put in your slips, ladies and gentlemen is yours in, Mr. Totski?
-- 'Gavrila Ardalionovitch Ivolgin,' said Nastasia, firmly and evenly.
-- 'It cannot be moved; you would have to pull the wall down, it is so firmly fixed.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a shepherd picks up a ram's fleece with one hand and finds it no burden, so easily did Hector lift the great stone and drive it right at the doors that closed the gates so strong and so firmly set.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was most firmly driven into him,' said Bagheera.
-- He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal's neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him.
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：
-- 'Listen,' said the Indian, laying his hand firmly upon her arm, as if willing to draw her utmost attention to his words; a movement that Cora as firmly but quietly repulsed, by ex-tricating the limb from his grasp: 'Magua was born a chief and a warrior among the red Hurons of the lakes; he saw the suns of twenty summers make the snows of twenty win-ters run off in the streams before he saw a pale face; and he was happy!Then his Canada fathers came into the woods, and taught him to drink the fire-water, and he became a rascal.
-- His firmly com-pressed and expressive lips then severed, and for the first time during the long ceremonies his voice was distinctly audible.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, moreover, esteemed by the wom-en as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft,' in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had left her only the evening before, so fully, so firmly resolved within my self on doing right!A few hours were to have engaged her to me for ever; and I remember how happy, how gay were my spirits, as I walked from the cottage to Allenham, satisfied with myself, delighted with every body!But in this, our last interview of friendship, I approached her with a sense of guilt that almost took from me the power of dissembling.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She began to gather up her poor little grip and closed her hand firmly upon her purse.
-- If it were not for the artificial fires of merriment, the rush of profit-seeking trade, and pleasure-selling amusements; if the various merchants failed to make the customary display within and without their establishments; if our streets were not strung with signs of gorgeous hues and thronged with hurrying purchasers, we would quickly discover how firmly the chill hand of winter lays upon the heart; how dispiriting are the days during which the sun withholds a portion of our allowance of light and warmth.
-- he said softly, with his teeth firmly set, "I'll make it hot for her if she causes me trouble.
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.
-- Pinocchio went straight to the Fairy's house, firmly resolved to knock at the door.
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