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《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was no very difficult task, for the grave was so full, that the uppermost coffin was within a few feet of the surface.
-- How long they might have sat and looked at each other, in a state of uncertainty not the most pleasant of its kind, it is difficult to guess.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- HER mind was less difficult to develop.
-- Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweet-ness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so be-witched by any woman as he was by her.
-- 'It is difficult indeed it is distressing.
-- But why Mr. Darcy came so often to the Parsonage, it was more difficult to understand.
-- Young la-dies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage, and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may like to have her own way.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot, that it was the most difficult thing in the world to come at them; but I was not discouraged at this, not doubting but I might now and then shoot one, as it soon happened; for after I had found their haunts a little, I laid wait in this manner for them: I observed if they saw me in the valleys, though they were upon the rocks, they would run away, as in a terrible fright; but if they were feeding in the valleys, and I was upon the rocks, they took no notice of me; from whence I con-cluded that, by the position of their optics, their sight was so directed downward that they did not readily see objects that were above them; so afterwards I took this method - I always climbed the rocks first, to get above them, and then had frequently a fair mark.
-- This was not so difficult to me as the making the shovel: and yet this and the shovel, and the attempt which I made in vain to make a wheelbarrow, took me up no less than four days - I mean always excepting my morning walk with my gun, which I seldom failed, and very seldom failed also bringing home something fit to eat.
-- This was a most difficult thing even to think on, for to be sure I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it - I mean fine thin canvas or stuff to searce the meal through.
-- My next thing was to contrive how to do it, and this, indeed, was very difficult to resolve on; but as I could pitch upon no probable means for it, so I resolved to put myself upon the watch, to see them when they came on shore, and leave the rest to the event; taking such measures as the opportunity should present, let what would be.
-- As I have troubled you with none of my sea journals, so I shall trouble you now with none of my land journals; but some adventures that happened to us in this tedious and difficult journey I must not omit.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them.
-- for famous you must be to satisfy all your family; and with no inclination for expense, no affection for strangers, no profession, and no assurance, you may find it a difficult matter."
-- Elinor had just been congratulating herself, in the midst of her perplexity, that however difficult it might be to express herself properly by letter, it was at least preferable to giving the information by word of mouth, when her visitor entered, to force her upon this greatest exertion of all.
-- About noon, however, she began but with a caution a dread of disappointment which for some time kept her silent, even to her friend to fancy, to hope she could perceive a slight amendment in her sister's pulse; she waited, watched, and examined it again and again; and at last, with an agitation more difficult to bury under exterior calmness, than all her foregoing distress, ventured to communicate her hopes.
-- Never in her life had Elinor found it so difficult to be calm, as at that moment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was too difficult a task.
-- It would pay the rent and would make the subject of expenditure a little less difficult to talk about with her husband.
-- She stood up from her stool and worked that way for a while, but it was a more difficult position.
-- She found it difficult to conquer an inclination to cry.
-- It was difficult to speak to Minnie about this, but at last she summoned the courage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a dif-ficult plan.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Carabineers, judging that it would be very difficult to catch him, sent a large Mastiff after him, one that had won first prize in all the dog races.
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