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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock.
-- Conversation turning upon whales, the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
-- He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
-- For with the strength of a thousand thighs in his tail, Leviathan had run his head under the mountains of the sea, to hide him from the Pequod's fish-spears!
-- To the student of old Roman walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the great strength of the masonry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, we may, if our strength lasts as long," I cried, in a lamentable voice.
-- May heaven give us strength to enable us once more to revisit the light of day.
-- This renewal of my youthful faith brought about a much greater amount of calm, and I was enabled to concentrate all my strength and intelligence on the terrible realities of my unprecedented situation.
-- .......... "One moment, my uncle," I cried; "I have no longer strength to answer your questions.
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：
-- She would be delighted with three framed R. A.s. She might even call, on the strength of them.
-- she said heavily, though if he had used any power over her, she would have gone, for she had no strength against him.
-- Connie calculated the amount of strength it must have taken to heave up that chair and the bulky Clifford: too much, far too much!If it hadn't killed him!
-- And the flame of strength went down his back and his loins, reviving him.
-- And her soft, warm, ripe weight!Slowly his blood turned, and began to ebb back into strength and reckless vigour again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And if any pleasure,' she said after a short pause, 'could arise for me out of the disappointment of my expectations that my son, in the prime of his life, would infuse new youth and strength into it, and make it of great profit and power, it would be in advancing an old and faithful servant.
-- If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.
-- I do myself the pleasure of making a visit to your respected mother occasionally, and of admiring the fortitude and strength of mind with which she bears her trials, bears her trials.'
-- You have stood of your own strength ever since.
-- Stand of your own strength now.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to rush for-ward, but her feet seemed to have no strength in them, and for a second, she could only stand motionless, staring with a terror-stricken face at the little blue hood above the black water.
-- My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.
-- 'I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral,' said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.
-- I am glad a task to me is given, To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, 'Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!'
-- Hannah nodded without speaking, for her lips twitched nervously, Meg dropped down into a chair as the strength seemed to go out of her limbs at the sound of those words, and Jo, standing with a pale face for a minute, ran to the par-lor, snatched up the telegram, and throwing on her things, rushed out into the storm.
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