fortitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坚毅，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 moment Strickland's fortitude was shaken, and a tear filled each of his eyes and trickled slowly down his cheeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell have not the nerve to say it?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the higher mental development which induces philosophy and that fortitude which refuses to dwell upon such things--refuses to be made to suffer by their consideration.
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：
-- To you, Cora, I will urge no words of idle en-couragement; your own fortitude and undisturbed reason will teach you all that may become your sex; but cannot we dry the tears of that trembling weeper on your bosom?'
-- Cunningly resuming his former posi-tion, though with a change of hands, as if the movement had been made merely to relieve the limb, the native await-ed the result with a calmness and fortitude that none but an Indian warrior would have known how to exercise.
-- It required no common exercise of fortitude in Uncas and the scout to continue the dignified and deliberate pace they had assumed in passing the lodge; especially as they immediately perceived that curiosity had so far mastered fear, as to induce the watchers to approach the hut, in order to witness the effect of the incantations.
-- They often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse, in suffering.
-- But, in a moment of so many serious and important du-ties, this single act of juvenile fortitude did not attract the general notice and commendation it would have received under milder auspices.
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