stubborn是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 顽固的; 难对付的,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:
-- This was doing good business; but what patience and energy were required to conduct such a restive, stubborn lot to their destination, and what fatigues must have to be endured.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Aglaya sat apart, almost in the corner, lis-tening in stubborn silence.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On this Juno was frightened, so she curbed her stubborn will and sat down in silence.
-- You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight: still, I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own off-spring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans.'
-- But the heart of Achilles was set on meeting Hector son of Priam, for it was with his blood that he longed above all things else to glut the stubborn lord of battle.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he saw clearly now (his work on a book of agriculture, in which the chief element in husbandry was to have been the laborer, greatly assisted him in this) that the sort of farming he was carrying on was nothing but a cruel and stubborn struggle between him and the laborers, in which there was on one side--his side--a continual intense effort to change everything to a pattern he considered better; on the other side, the natural order of things.
-- Vronsky's talk about his painting he met with stubborn silence, and he was as stubbornly silent when he was shown Vronsky's picture.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- but anyway-- He was a fool to have lost his temper, even if she was so stubborn that she wouldn't adjust her opinions, couldn't see that he had a gift for influencing people.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Poor India!It would be bad enough to have pale hair and eyelashes anda hitting chin that meant a stubborn disposition, without being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But when the disease was more stubborn and vio-lent, he let in the muzzle while the bellows were full of wind, which he discharged into the body of the patient; then with-drew the instrument to replenish it, clapping his thumb strongly against the orifice of then fundament; and this being repeated three or four times, the adventitious wind would rush out, bringing the noxious along with it, (like water put into a pump), and the patient recovered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, all helped the emphasis.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories."
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:
-- All that really remained was a stubborn stoicism: and in that there was a certain pleasure.
-- A stubborn woman an er own self-will: ay, they make a fast continuity, they do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The contention that raged within her had no softening in it now; it was wholly between passionate defiance and stubborn defiance.
-- No answer coming to these epistles, or to another written to the stubborn girl by the hand of her late young mistress, which might have melted her if anything could (all three letters were returned weeks afterwards as having been refused at the house-door), he deputed Mrs Meagles to make the experiment of a personal interview.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He's a stubborn fellow and hard to manage,' said Mr. Laurence, rubbing up his hair till it looked as if he had been out in a gale, and smoothing the frown from his brow with an air of relief.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.
-- And Ahab, he too was standing on his quarter-deck, shaggy and black, with a stubborn gloom; and as the two ships crossed each other's wakes one all jubilations for things passed, the other all forebodings as to things to come their two captains in themselves impersonated the whole striking contrast of the scene.
-- That glad, happy air, that winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long cruel forbidding now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to bless.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Pinocchio was as stubborn as ever.
-- "And yet I deserve everything, for I am certainly very stubborn and stupid!I will always have my own way.
-- But I'm stubborn and proud.
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