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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
-- Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal required.
-- "If such an animal is in existence, if it inhabits the depths of the ocean, if it frequents the strata lying miles below the surface of the water, it must necessarily possess an organisation the strength of which would defy all comparison."
-- "Because it requires incalculable strength to keep one's self in these strata and resist their pressure.
-- Consider, then, what must be the resistance of their bony structure, and the strength of their organisation to withstand such pressure!"
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：
-- But still she believed in her strength to keep him, she believed in her own higher knowledge.
-- He sees himself reflected in the neighbouring opinion, like in a Brocken mist, several feet taller on the strength of the pianoforte, and he is satisfied.
-- He would be able to destroy her utterly in the strength of his discharge.
-- So to the last he would go to her and hold her in his arms sometimes, before his strength was all gone.
-- The world had passed away from him, as his strength ebbed.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been active and healthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to the chimney corner he grew grievously irritable.
-- Mr. Hindley had gone from home one afternoon, and Heathcliff presumed to give himself a holiday on the strength of it.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ebb had already run some time, and I had to wade through a long belt of swampy sand, where I sank several times above the ankle, before I came to the edge of the retreating water, and wading a little way in, with some strength and dexterity, set my coracle, keel downwards, on the surface.
-- Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
-- I remembered what Silver had said about the current that sets northward along the whole west coast of Treasure Island, and seeing from my position that I was already under its influence, I preferred to leave Haulbowline Head behind me and reserve my strength for an attempt to land upon the kindlier-looking Cape of the Woods.
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