rigid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 僵硬的, 不易弯的; 严格的，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：
-- The child was one of the aborigines baptized by the English missionaries, and trained by them in all the rigid principles of the Methodist Church.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the blackness of the moor.
-- She glanced at them, and then looked up at us with the set, rigid face of a desperate woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years; but it had begun to wear the signs of care and ava-rice.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That afternoon he had recognized the rigid though kindly code of the Twyfords, but could he not set it aside by being frankly an Outlander?)
-- He could not get himself to give up his reliance on whisky, and he could see no way of discontinuing the phage-injection of all who came begging for it, but he turned both injection and manufacture over to others, and went back to the most rigid observation of his experiment in St. Swithin's .
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stern and already rigid profile of her face looked as though chiselled of marble too, and the smile on her pale lips was full of an immense unchildish misery and sorrowful appeal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Janet had gone away to get the bath ready, when my aunt, to mygreat alarm, became in one moment rigid with indignation, andhad hardly voice to cry out, 'Janet!Donkeys!'
-- Alwaysproceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw werelocked and the face frozen up in pain.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The handsome sergeant's features were during this speech as rigid and stern as John Knox's in addressing his gay young queen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bounderby, this is a case for rigid training, and I shall observe it with interest.'
-- 'You are rigid with me, and I deserve it.
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
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：
-- He stopped the engine and sat rigid with anger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.
-- Great need had the rigid woman of her mystical religion, veiled in gloom and darkness, with lightnings of cursing, vengeance, and destruction, flashing through the sable clouds.
-- 'From the unhappy suppression of my youngest days, through the rigid and unloving home that followed them, through my departure, my long exile, my return, my mother's welcome, my intercourse with her since, down to the afternoon of this day with poor Flora,' said Arthur Clennam, 'what have I found!'
-- And, with a rigid movement of her stony reticule (an appendage of great size and of a fossil appearance), indicated that Clennam was the unfortunate person at whom the challenge was hurled.
-- Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked can not be and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any mention of her 'works' always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now.
-- If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old as Pizarro, this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
-- But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew, the old man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, "I have it!It has happened before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of sleeping infancy, and settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the Angel even upon earth.
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