difficult是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 困难的， 艰难的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the most difficult period of Martin's life.
-- This was difficult with the mice which Terry had contrived to use instead of monkeys, because of their size.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb ofdisorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable.
-- What made it all so difficult was that Dounia received a hundred roubles in advance when she took the place as governess in their family, on condition of part of her salary being deducted every month, and so it was im-possible to throw up the situation without repaying the debt.
-- Moreover, in order to un-derstand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
-- 'It's a difficult job,' the policeman said to Raskolnikov, and as he did so, he looked him up and down in a rapid glance.
-- In any case, it would have been difficult to find out beforehand and with certainty, with greater exact-ness and less risk, and without dangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain time an old wom-an, on whose life an attempt was contemplated, would be at home and entirely alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture himquite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his gratefullittle niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of thecocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.
-- I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found itextremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything likedexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while hewas standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush inthe most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.
-- It is even difficult for me to believe that there was a gap of full twomonths between my return to Salem House and the arrival of thatbirthday.
-- He is a difficult subject.'
-- Fortunately it was not difficult to do, forSteerforth could always pass from one subject to another with acarelessness and lightness that were his own.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was sorry; to have to pay civilities to a person she did not like through three long months! to be always doing more than she wished, and less than she ought!Why she did not like Jane Fairfax might be a difficult question to answer; Mr. Knightley had once told her it was because she saw in her the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself; and though the accusation had been eagerly refuted at the time, there were moments of self-examination in which her conscience could not quite acquit her.
-- ' 'At a watering-place, or in a common London acquaintance, it was difficult to decide on such points.
-- It was hardly right; but it had been so strong an idea, that it would escape her, and his submission to all that she told, was a compliment to her pen-etration, which made it difficult for her to be quite certain that she ought to have held her tongue.
-- If she is ill I should be sorry to do her injustice; but there are some traits in her character which make it difficult for me to speak of her with the forbearance I could wish.
-- While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might be-come an increase of comfort to him. How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision; how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any pos-sible atonement; how to appear least her enemy? On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surround-ed it. She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and indulging in one scheme more nearly resolve, that 532 Emmait might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Bruns-wick Square. Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amuse-ment. She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children. At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.
-- It is difficult to describe the intensely dramatic effect that announcement had upon Oak at such a moment.
-- Joseph then placed the flowers as enjoined, and the evergreens around the flowers, till it was difficult to divine what the waggon contained; he smacked his whip, and the rather pleasing funeral car crept down the hill, and along the road to Weatherbury.
-- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer found it very difficult to annoy a boarder whose tastes were so simple.
-- Eugene de Rastignac had just returned to Paris in a state of mind not unknown to young men who are conscious of unusual powers, and to those whose faculties are so stimulated by a difficult position, that for the time being they rise above the ordinary level.
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