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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perceiving their danger, the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the cords of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
-- exclaimed Pencroft, fixing his hat firmly on his head with a blow of his fist; "but pshaw, we shall succeed all the same!"
-- These quills were fixed firmly at the ends of the arrows, the flight of which was made more certain by some cockatoos' feathers.
-- Two barrels were there, half buried in the sand, but still firmly a ttached to a large chest, which, sustained by them, had floated to the moment when it stranded on the beach.
-- The bank was raised a little above the level of the sea, and on this luxuriant soil, supported by a granite base, the fine forest trees seemed to be as firmly planted as in the interior of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no doubt that by day Mr Swiveller firmly believed this secret convenience to be a bookcase and nothing more; that he closed his eyes to the bed, resolutely denied the existence of the blankets, and spurned the bolster from his thoughts.
-- And truly, they were as sturdy and bluff a pair of boots as one would wish to see; as firmly planted on the ground as if their owner's legs and feet had been in them; and seeming, with their broad soles and blunt toes, to hold possession of their place by main force.
-- Whether there was anything in the peculiar slyness of her action which fascinated Mr Quilp, or anything in the expression of her features at the moment which attracted his attention for some other reason; or whether it merely occurred to him as a pleasant whim to stare the small servant out of countenance; certain it is, that he planted his elbows square and firmly on the desk, and squeezing up his cheeks with his hands, looked at her fixedly.
-- The old gentleman is helped into the chaise with great obsequiousness by Mr Sampson Brass; and the pony, after shaking his head several times, and standing for three or four minutes with all his four legs planted firmly on the ground, as if he had made up his mind never to stir from that spot, but there to live and die, suddenly darts off, without the smallest notice, at the rate of twelve English miles an hour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- calmly but firmly repeated the justiciary.
-- "I am not guilty of anything," boldly and firmly answered the prisoner.
-- It was therefore necessary, in order to be prepared to follow Maslova to Siberia, upon which Nekhludoff was firmly resolved, to go to the villages and arrange his affairs there.
-- The clerk smiled, as though he had been thinking of the same thing, and was very glad to hear it, but in reality did not understand it, not because Nekhludoff did not express himself plainly enough, but because, according to this project, Nekhludoff deprived himself of advantages for the benefit of others, whereas the truth that every man strives to obtain advantages at the expense of others, was so firmly rooted in the clerk's mind, that he thought that he misunderstood Nekhludoff when the latter said that the entire income of the land was to go into the community's treasury.
-- She was firmly resolved not to accept his sacrifice, and yet it was painful for her to think that he despised her; tha t he thought her to be the same as she had been, and did not see the change she was undergoing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor chance!but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!Moreover, there were two of us.
-- Ned Land and Conseil, firmly seized, followed me.
-- Fortunately the windows were firmly set, and had held fast.
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：
-- It was a certain pure effluence of maleness, like an aroma from his softly, firmly moulded contours, a certain rich perfection of his presence, that touched her with an ecstasy, a thrill of pure intoxication.
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