strive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 斗争, 努力, 奋斗，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.
-- With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears.
-- Then Achilles set his foot on his chest and spoiled him of his armour, vaunting over him and say-ing, 'Lie there begotten of a river though you be, it is hard for you to strive with the offspring of Saturn's son.
-- As often as he would strive to stand his ground, and see whether or no all the gods in heaven were in league against him, so often would the mighty wave come beating down upon his shoulders, and be would have to keep flying on and on in great dismay; for the angry flood was tiring him out as it flowed past him and ate the ground from under his feet.
-- I cannot fight you when you flare out your flames in this way; strive with me no longer.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This marvellous beauty they strive to preserve even in His moments of deepest ag-ony and passion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
-- 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What have I to strive and toil for?
-- God's grace is not guided by human considerations: sometimes it comes not to those that strive for it, and comes to those that are unprepared, like Saul."
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：
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet did think him all perfection, and maintained the non-existence of any body equal to him in person or good-ness and did, in truth, prove herself more resolutely in love than Emma had foreseen; but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continu-ing very long in equal force.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allow-ing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This pain of the mind was much harder to strive against than any bodily pain I suffered; and Herbert, seeing that, did his utmost to hold my attention engaged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!if those who rule the destinies of nations would but remember this if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found if they would but turn aside from the wide thoroughfares and great houses, and strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk many low roofs would point more truly to the sky, than the loftiest steeple that now rears proudly up from the midst of guilt, and crime, and horrible disease, to mock them by its contrast.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assured him, 'how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point; but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honour could have no con-ception; because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them; that, however, I would do my best, and strive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desir-ing his assistance when I wanted proper words;' which he 307was pleased to promise me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall strive t' see thee agen, Rachael, afore I go, but if not ''Thou wilt not, Stephen, I know.
-- 'Father, if you had known, when we were last together here, what even I feared while I strove against it as it has been my task from infancy to strive against every natural prompting that has arisen in my heart; if you had known that there lingered in my breast, sensibilities, affections, weaknesses capable of being cherished into strength, defying all the calculations ever made by man, and no more known to his arithmetic than his Creator is, would you have given me to the husband whom I am now sure that I hate?'
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：
-- I should have something to strive for then, and I should know it was your child, shouldn't I, dear?
-- The activity, the orgasm was his, all his; she could strive for herself no more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance.
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