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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strength of Mulrady and the dexterity of Wilson were taxed heavily now.
-- However, in spite of their courage, the strength of the little band was giving way.
-- However strong the will of these brave men might be, the time came at last when their physical powers failed, and vertigo, that terrible malady in the mountains, destroyed not only their bodily strength but their moral energy.
-- Then his presentiments returned in greater strength than before, and he listened anxiously to the sounds outside the hut.
-- Its strength is prodigious.
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：
-- There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes.
-- In mere size and strength it was a terrible creature which was lying stretched before us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same de-cision and firmness was to be observed in her face as in her mother's, but her strength seemed to be more vigorous than that of Nina Alexandrovna.
-- They included a couple of young merchants, a man in a great-coat, a medical student, a little Pole, a small fat man who laughed continuously, and an enormously tall stout one who apparently put great faith in the strength of his fists.
-- 'Well, just now you said there were no honest nor good people about, that there were only money-grubbers and here they are quite close at hand, these honest and good people, your mother and Varia!I think there is a good deal of moral strength in helping people in suchcircum stances.'
-- However, in a very few minutes he decided that to run away was impossible; that it would be cowardly; that great problems lay before him, and that he had no right to leave them unsolved, or at least to refuse to give all his energy and strength to the attempt to solve them.
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.'
-- 'Let no man,' he said, 'relying on his strength or horsemanship, get before the others and engage singly with the Trojans, nor yet let him lag behind or you will weaken your attack; but let each when he meets an enemy's chariot throw his spear from his own; this be much the best; this is how the men of old took towns and strongholds; in this wise were they minded.'
-- 'I wish,' he said to him, 'that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; but age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.'
-- When they came to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomed, fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and en-durance, there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said.
-- Folks got up everywheres in the crowd, and worked their way just by main strength to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down their faces; and when all the mourners had got up there to the front benches in a crowd, they sung and shouted and flung themselves down on the straw, just crazy and wild.
-- Romeo...................Mr. Garrick Juliet..................Mr. Kean Assisted by the whole strength of the company!New costumes, new scenes, new appointments!
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come in," said the carpenter, not having an atom of strength left with which to stand up.
-- At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and threw it with all his strength at the Talking Cricket.
-- As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them.
-- Thinking it would make a fine missile, one of the boys took hold of it and threw it with all his strength at Pinocchio's head.
-- "Do you think it possible for a Marionette, a yard high, to have the strength to carry me on his shoulders and swim?"
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