obstinate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 顽固的, 倔强的, 不易屈服的, 较难治愈的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.
-- "Indeed!Well, on this occasion they have, at any rate," retorted McNabbs, quite as obstinate as his opponent.
-- Keep your courage up and no matter what befalls you, let us show this obstinate courage which can rise above everything.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been obliging now he was as obstinate and silent as a mule.
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：
-- The old man made a gesture of resignation, though his rigid features still betrayed his obstinate adherence to a dis-trust, which he derived from a sort of hereditary contempt of his enemy, rather than from any present signs which might warrant so uncharitable a feeling.
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：
-- I'm as obstinate as he is, and I'll never divorce him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom Gradgrind, as your son, young Tom, refuses for some obstinate reason or other to say anything at all about those statements, good or bad, I am obliged to confront her with your daughter.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely Professor Hardwigg did not intend the old woman and myself to become martyrs to his obstinate will.
-- My uncle, who was, sooth to say, quite as obstinate as the beast he bestrode, insisted on his making the desired advance.
-- Between us, we might have convinced the obstinate Professor.
-- If the St. Thomases of paleontology were present, they would reverentially touch him with their fingers and believe in his existence, thus acknowledging their obstinate heresy.
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：
-- Fathers were ridiculous: his own obstinate one supremely so.
-- How still the trees were, with their crinkly, innumerable twigs against the sky, and their grey, obstinate trunks rising from the brown bracken!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do say,' she repeated, 'this is perfectly infamous!Really almost enough, even at such a time as this, to make one wish one was dead!Here is that child Amy, in her ugly old shabby dress, which she was so obstinate about, Pa, which I over and over again begged and prayed her to change, and which she over and over again objected to, and promised to change to-day, saying she wished to wear it as long as ever she remained in there with you which was absolutely romantic nonsense of the lowest kind here is that child Amy disgracing us to the last moment and at the last moment, by being carried out in that dress after all.
-- 'Unless you are a more obstinate and more persisting woman than even I know you to be,' Mr Flintwinch interposed, 'you had better leave Mr Rigaud, Mr Blandois, Mr Beelzebub, to tell it in his own way.
-- I've been telling you for how many years that you're one of the most opinionated and obstinate of women.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken part in similar ceremonies, looked no ways abashed; but taking the offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place, an exact counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed upon his arm; so that through Captain Peleg's obstinate mistake touching his appellative, it stood something like this: Quohog.
-- There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!There's orthodoxy!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Can't you look at the gentleman, you obstinate boy?'
-- There's a obstinate pauper for you!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, my dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion.
-- One day's delay, she observed, would be of small importance; and her mother was too happy to be quite so obstinate as usual.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I continued in the station I was now in, I had room for all the happy things to have yet be-fallen me for which my father so earnestly recommended a quiet, retired life, and of which he had so sensibly described the middle station of life to be full of; but other things at-tended me, and I was still to be the wilful agent of all my own miseries; and particularly, to increase my fault, and double the reflections upon myself, which in my future sor-rows I should have leisure to make, all these miscarriages were procured by my apparent obstinate adhering to my foolish inclination of wandering abroad, and pursuing that inclination, in contradiction to the clearest views of doing myself good in a fair and plain pursuit of those prospects, and those measures of life, which nature and Providence concurred to present me with, and to make my duty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew him to be a very good sort of man, and I thought well of his daughter better than she deserved, for, with a most obstinate and ill-judged secrecy, she would tell nothing, would give no clue, though she certainly knew all.
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