tough是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 坚韧的; 咬不动的; 强壮的, 坚强的, 棘手的; 粗暴的, 固执的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 50 Sons and LoversStave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and Asitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gustaf Sondelius, the soldier of preventive medicine whose lecture had sent Martin from Wheatsylvania to Nautilus, had remained in his gallery of heroes as possessing a little of Gottlieb's perception, something of Dad Silva's steady kindliness, something of Terry's tough honesty though none of his scorn of amenities, and with these a spicy, dripping richness altogether his own.
-- The absence of Gottlieb may have been good for Martin, since he no longer turned to the master for solutions in tough queries.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She's a tough one,' was shouted in the crowd.
-- You've a tough job!A great point for you is whether a man is spend-ing money or not.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Aunt Pitty, she was nervously trying to stifle a belch, for the rooster they had had for supper wasa tough old bird.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
-- His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hardas his keen mind.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sail was likewise composed of the skins of the same animal; but I made use of the youngest I could get, the older being too tough and thick; and I like-wise provided myself with four paddles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is far too tough and too big to be destroyed by a pickax or crowbar," I replied.
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：
-- Poor forlorn thing, she was nicer than she knew, and oh!so much too nice for the tough lot she was in contact with.
-- Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn't all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl.
-- He found her too familiar, she found him stupidly insentient, tough and indiarubbery where other people were concerned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That was a tough commencement.
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- He was small and bent, and perhaps not actively strong; yet he was as tough as an old yew-tree, and as crusty as an old jackdaw.
-- All the time, Mr Pancks was tearing at his tough hair in a most pitiless and cruel manner.
-- Mr Pancks took hold of his tough hair again, and gave it such a wrench that he pulled out several prongs of it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are those sharks now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and rare?
-- The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
-- It is tough with congealed tendons a wad of muscle but still contains some oil.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It proved of excellent advan-tage to me now, that when I was a boy, I used to take great delight in standing at a basket-maker's, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their wicker-ware; and being, as boys usually are, very officious to help, and a great observer of the manner in which they worked those things, and sometimes lending a hand, I had by these means full knowledge of the methods of it, and I wanted nothing but the materials, when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut my stakes that grew might possibly be as tough as the sallows, willows, and osiers in England, and I resolved to try.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a tough thing to have to come to.
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