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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ostrich and the peccary were prepared for cooking by divesting them of their tough skins, and cutting them up into thin slices.
-- A cry of admiration escaped the travelers at the sight of the eucalyptus trees, two hundred feet high, with tough bark five inches thick.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The valiant son of Anchises was of the same mind, and the pair went right on, with their shoulders covered under shields of tough dry ox-hide, overlaid with much bronze.
-- He threw tough copper into the fire, and tin, with silver and gold; he set his great anvil on its block, and with one hand grasped his mighty hammer while he took the tongs in the other.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong headed, broad-skirted Dutch ur-chin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
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：
-- When the doors of the Asile de Nuit were closed to them, Strickland and Captain Nichols sought the hospitality of Tough Bill.
-- Captain Nichols looked upon it as a smart piece of work on Strickland's part that he had got out of this by painting a portrait of Tough Bill.
-- Tough Bill not only paid for the canvas, colours, and brushes, but gave Strickland a pound of smuggled tobacco into the bargain.
-- Strickland had no papers, but that was not a matter to disconcert Tough Bill when he saw a profit (he took the first month's wages of the sailor for whom he found a berth), and he provided Strickland with those of an English stoker who had providentially died on his hands.
-- Tough Bill had no patience with an obstinacy which could only result in loss to himself, and on the last occasion he flung both Strickland and Captain Nichols out of his house without more ado.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sailor had also made snares from the long tough fibers of a certain plant, and they were even more successful than the traps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dropped into the hollow, lifted the side of the tent, and there was Ben Gunn's boat home-made if ever anything was home-made; a rude, lop-sided framework of tough wood, and stretched upon that a covering of goat-skin, with the hair inside.
-- At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken once more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last fibres through.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would also mention quadrangular ostracions, having on the back four large tubercles; some dotted over with white spots on the lower part of the body, and which may be tamed like birds; trigons provided with spikes formed by the lengthening of their bony shell, and which, from their strange gruntings, are called "seapigs"; also dromedaries with large humps in the shape of a cone, whose flesh is very tough and leathery.
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：
-- Only the elderly sociologist, whose mental fibre was so tough as to be insentient, seemed to be thoroughly happy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," he said, after a time, his nature recovering itself, "that's a pretty tough game over there."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young chap was mighty thankful; said it was tough work toting his baggage such weather.
-- Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Su-san alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was and all that kind of rot, the way wom-en always do for to force out compliments; and the people all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so said 'How DO you get biscuits to brown so nice?'
-- Anyway, he set there, and pretty soon he be-gun to smile, and says: 'Mf!It's a VERY tough question, AIN'T it!YES, sir, I k'n tell you what's tattooed on his breast.
-- We had dinner out in that broad open passage be- twixt the house and the kitchen; and there was things enough on that table for seven families and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.
-- Chapter XXXVIII AKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so Mwas the saw; and Jim allowed the in- scription was going to be the toughest of all.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It looks very tough and I can use it to make myself a drumhead.
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