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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the rigid figure, evidently in a state of painfully suppressed rage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned as noiselessly as possible, and becoming ev-ery now and then rigid with the fear of being discovered, as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled, I pushed back into the bushes.
-- Soon we traced a narrow path through the wild luxuriance of the island, going northwestward; and presently M'ling stopped, and became rigid with watchfulness.
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：
-- As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the 'Horican' into his mouth, as the substitute for 'Lake George.'
-- His eyes fell on the still, upright, and rigid form of the 'Indian runner,' who had borne to the camp the unwelcome tidings of the preceding evening.
-- But the scout, who had placed his chin in his hand, with an ex-pression of cold indifference, gradually suffered his rigid features to relax, until, as verse succeeded verse, he felt his iron nature subdued, while his recollection was carried back to boyhood, when his ears had been accustomed to listen to similar sounds of praise, in the settlements of the colony.
-- For several min-utes Munro paced the chamber with long and rapid strides, his rigid features working convulsively, and every faculty seemingly absorbed in the musings of his own mind.
-- The old man made a gesture of resignation, though his rigid features still betrayed his obstinate adherence to a dis-trust, which he derived from a sort of hereditary contempt of his enemy, rather than from any present signs which might warrant so uncharitable a feeling.
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：
-- I should be sorry if my conscience, insisting on a rigid attention to the matter in hand, forced me to dismiss him in a couple of lines.
-- At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where, in the sharp lineaments of rigid and unsightly death, is the calm beauty of slumber, telling of rest for the waking hours that are past, and gentle hopes and loves for those which are to come?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due to the density of the element which had produced them.
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：
-- It was a massive, magnificent stallion, rigid with pent-up power.
-- Its neck was arched and terrible, like a sickle, its flanks were pressed back, rigid with power.
-- In a state of rigid unconsciousness, he read on through the night, till morning, when, weary and disgusted in spirit, disgusted most of all with himself, he slept for two hours.
-- It had been rigid like a dried board when he picked it up.
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