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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But if they do not exist, mine obstinate harpooner, how explain the accident to the Scotia?"
-- My obstinate companion had given me no time; and, after all, what could I have said to him?
-- But the obstinate Canadian refused, and I saw that his taciturnity and his bad humour grew day by day.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the wilfulness of an obstinate child, he wanted to break the holy connection that was between them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As obstinate in his ideas as in his presentiments, he was in no haste to abandon this part of the coast, the scene of the catastrophe.
-- said the obstinate sailor again.
-- But the obstinate sailor would listen to nothing of this, and he would give the engineer no peace till he promised to satisfy his desire.
-- returned the obstinate sailor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fleet of barges were coming lazily on, some sideways, some head first, some stern first; all in a wrong-headed, dogged, obstinate way, bumping up against the larger craft, running under the bows of steamboats, getting into every kind of nook and corner where they had no business, and being crunched on all sides like so many walnut-shells; while each with its pair of long sweeps struggling and splashing in the water looked like some lumbering fish in pain.
-- Sure enough, before long the pony came trotting round the corner of the street, looking as obstinate as pony might, and picking his steps as if he were spying about for the cleanest places, and would by no means dirty his feet or hurry himself inconveniently.
-- When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again!Yes, there he was, looking more obstinate than ever; and alone in the chaise, keeping a steady watch upon his every wink, sat Mr Abel, who, lifting up his eyes by chance and seeing Kit pass by, nodded to him as though he would have nodded his head off.
-- He was in a manner a friend of mine, but he was always obstinate and wrong-headed.
-- Although Kit was in the very highest favour with the old lady and gentleman, and Mr Abel, and Barbara, it is certain that no member of the family evinced such a remarkable partiality for him as the self-willed pony, who, from being the most obstinate and opinionated pony on the face of the earth, was, in his hands, the meekest and most tractable of animals.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.
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