strength是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 力， 力量； 实力； 长处， 优点； 人力； 兵力，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Atlantaconsidered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of theirbelief.
-- Something in his lookchallenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.
-- ButGod would give me strength to bear it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have often thought him since, like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or pat an egg-shell, in his combination of strength with gentleness.
-- Drummle upon this, informed our host that he much preferred our room to our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that as to strength he could scatter us like chaff.
-- All the children of the village, and most of the women, were admiring these sable warders and the closed windows of the house and forge; and as I came up, one of the two warders (the postboy) knocked at the door,--implying that I was far too much exhausted by grief to have strength remaining to knock for myself.
-- There I stood, for minutes, looking at Joe, already at work with a glow of health and strength upon his face that made it show as if the bright sun of the life in store for him were shining on it.
-- If he should turn to and beat her, he may possibly get the strength on his side; if it should be a question of intellect, he certainly will not.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you not strength enough to hold the weak twig?'
-- The unicorn ran against the tree with all its strength, and stuck its horn so fast in the trunk that it had not the strength enough to draw it out again, and thus it was caught.
-- Then she sat and wept and screamed with all the strength of her body, over the misfortune which lay before her.
-- 'When you are half-way over, throw it down, and out of the waters will immediately spring up a high nut-tree on which the griffin will be able to rest, otherwise he would not have the strength to bear you the whole way; if, therefore, thou dost forget to throw down the nut, he will let you both fall into the sea.'
-- But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their lan-guage; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
-- The horse that fell was strained in the left shoulder, but the rider got no hurt; and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could: however, I would not trust to the strength of it any more, in such dangerous en-terprises.
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
-- Once I was strongly bent upon resistance, for, while I had liberty the whole strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and I might easily with stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project with horror, by remembering the oath I had made to the emperor, the favours I received from him, and the high title of nardac he conferred upon me.
-- But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.
-- In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man.
-- Mrs. Sparsit sedately resumed her work and occasionally gave a small cough, which sounded like the cough of conscious strength and forbearance.
-- 'It is much to be regretted,' said Mrs. Sparsit, making her nose more Roman and her eyebrows more Coriolanian in the strength of her severity, 'that the united masters allow of any such class-combinations.'
-- MEN AND BROTHERS'Oh, my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!Oh, my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an iron-handed and a grinding despotism!Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men!I tell you that the hour is come, when we must rally round one another as One united power, and crumble into dust the oppressors that too long have battened upon the plunder of our families, upon the sweat of our brows, upon the labour of our hands, upon the strength of our sinews, upon the God-created glorious rights of Humanity, and upon the holy and eternal privileges of Brotherhood!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made as little use of it as possible, trusting to my own agility and doing miracles in the way of feats of dexterity and strength upon the projecting shelves and spurs of lava which my feet seemed to clutch as strongly as my hands.
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