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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But somehow the things drift back again: the stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again.
-- 'The stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again.'
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:
-- Heyward, perceiving that the stubborn adherence of the scout to the cause of his friends the Delawares, or Mohicans, for they were branches of the same numerous people, was likely to prolong a useless discussion, changed the subject.
-- Wearied at length by their impor-tunities, and apprehensive of irritating his captors by too stubborn a silence, the former looked about him in quest of Magua, who might interpret his answers to questions which were at each moment becoming more earnest and threaten-ing.
-- 'You hear,' said Magua, with stubborn indifference: 'the red Hurons call for the life of 'The Long Rifle', or they will have the blood of him that keep him hid!'
-- 'Alice,' she said, 'the Huron offers us both life, nay, more than both; he offers to restore Duncan, our invaluable Dun-can, as well as you, to our friends to our father to our heart-stricken, childless father, if I will bow down this re-bellious, stubborn pride of mine, and consent ' Her voice became choked, and clasping her hands, she looked upward, as if seeking, in her agony, intelligence from a wisdom that was infinite.
-- returned the stubborn scout.
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:
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On their return to the office the clerk explained to Nekhludoff that it was not a want of good sense that prevented their acceptance of the offer; that when gathered in assembly they always acted in that stubborn manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A stubborn anger seized the crew; the sailors abused the monster, who, as before, disdained to answer them; the captain no longer contented himself with twisting his beard he gnawed it.
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:
-- There was a stubborn pause.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in kneebreeches and gaiters.
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