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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One idiosyncrasy for which she often apologized, she found it excessively difficult to conquer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The letters at all events," I said, "are rather difficult of comprehension."
-- The abrupt character of the slopes momentarily increased, but these remarkable stone steps, a little less difficult than those of the Egyptian pyramids, were the one simple natural means by which we were enabled to proceed.
-- It would have been difficult for matters to have turned out otherwise.
-- "For my part," I added, "I think it will be rather difficult to determine."
-- I have had in my hands the writing called Gigans--" Here my uncle was afflicted by the natural infirmity which prevented him from pronouncing difficult words in public.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he was very patient, spelling for her the difficult words, or the occasion-al phrases in French.
-- He led her through the wall of prickly trees, that were difficult to come through, to a place where was a little space and a pile of dead boughs.
-- 'Don't make it difficult for me,' she pleaded.
-- He lit up the difficult places with a flash-light torch, and they went on again, while an owl softly hooted over the oaks, and Flossie padded silently around.
-- It would be very difficult to get the better of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he asked, with a dry hot pallor upon him, rather difficult of association with merriment.
-- 'Why, unless you did,' returned the jailer, 'you might depart in so many pieces that it would be difficult to get you together again.
-- And yet it would have been as difficult as ever to say, positively, whether she avoided the rest, or was avoided.
-- It is far more difficult to say than what I have said.
-- At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit of all the world to live locked up in narrow yards surrounded by high walls with spikes at the top, would be a difficult question to settle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg was too much absorbed in her private and particular John to care for any other lords of creation, and Beth too shy to do more than peep at them and wonder how Amy dared to order them about so, but Jo felt quite in her own element, and found it very difficult to refrain from imi-tating the gentlemanly attitudes, phrases, and feats, which seemed more natural to her than the decorums prescribed for young ladies.
-- Mrs. Chester fancied beforehand that it would be easy to deliver this little speech, but when the time came, she found it rather difficult to utter it naturally, with Amy's -unsuspicious eyes looking straight at her full of surprise and trouble.
-- He found it difficult to understand how any girl could help loving Laurie, and hoped she would change her mind, but he knew even better than Jo that love cannot be forced, so he shook his head sadly and resolved to carry his boy out of harm's way, for Young Impetuosity's parting words to Jo disturbed him more than he would confess.
-- When Amy and Laurie wrote of their engagement, Mrs. March feared that Jo would find it difficult to rejoice over it, but her fears were soon set at rest, for thought Jo looked grave at first, she took it very quietly, and was full of hopes and plans for 'the children' before she read the letter twice.
-- observed Mr. March, finding it difficult to become absorbed in his Aris-totle after the young couple had gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no very difficult matter for the boy to call tears into his eyes.
-- He heard the news of his destination, in perfect silence; and, having had his luggage put into his hand--which was not very difficult to carry, inasmuch as it was all comprised within the limits of a brown paper parcel, about half a foot square by three inches deep--he pulled his cap over his eyes; and once more attaching himself to Mr. Bumble's coat cuff, was led away by that dignitary to a new scene of suffering.
-- It is difficult for a large-headed, small-eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls.
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