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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I not run for it I must either have lain there for long enough in torments among the ghastly corpes, or have been eaten alive with spears till I had no more strength left in me.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is so much easier not to believe in an invisible man; and those who had actually seen him dissolve into air, or felt the strength of his arm, could be counted on the fingers of two hands.
-- "I haven't the nerve and strength for the sort of thing you want."
-- As a matter of fact I was worked out; the intense stress of nearly four years' continuous work left me incapable of any strength of feeling.
-- My strength had returned.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- A broadening gap of green water appeared under me, and I pushed back with all my strength to avoid falling headlong.
-- My last remaining strength slipped from me, and my head fell forward on my chest.
-- I shouted with all my strength and fired into the air.
-- I had recovered strength amazingly since my landing, but I was still inclined to be nervous and to break down under any great stress.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
-- He was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets feebler and feebler, till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up to be killed in his turn.
-- Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide.
-- Kaa was not a poison snake in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
-- The fighting strength of a -python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body.
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：
-- 'This is well,' continued Heyward; 'and Le Renard will have strength and sight to find the path in the morning"; he paused, for sounds like the snapping of a dried stick, and the rustling of leaves, rose from the adjacent bushes, but recollecting himself instantly, he continued, 'we must be moving before the sun is seen, or Montcalm may lie in our path, and shut us out from the fortress.'
-- Let us hear what you can do in that way; 'twill be a friendly manner of saying good-night, for 'tis time that these ladies should be getting strength for a hard and a long push, in the pride of the morning, afore the Maquas are stirring.'
-- As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended en-tirely on bodily strength and resolution.
-- Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence.
-- 'No, no; instead of throwing away strength and opportunity by crossing to the fort, we lay by, under the bank of the Hud-son, waiting to watch the movements of the Hurons.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among these, the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood.
-- He was foremost at all races and cock fights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one side, and giving his decisions with an air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal.
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：
-- And on the strength of peccadillos, reprehensible in an author, but excusable in a son, the Anglo-Saxon race is accused of prudishness, humbug, pretentiousness, deceit, cunning, and bad cooking.
-- The younger generation, conscious of strength and tumultuous, have done with knocking at the door; they have burst in and seated themselves in our seats.
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