stiff是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 坚硬的; 费劲的; 不易弯的，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：
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Doctor occupied two floors of a large stiff house, where several callings purported to be pursued by day, but whereof little was audible any day, and which was shunned by all of them at night.
-- Whatever tools they worked with, they worked hard, until the awful striking of the church clock so terrified Young Jerry, that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's.
-- And shall I hang back, when Tellson's knows this and says this Tellson's, whose bread I have eat-en these sixty years because I am a little stiff about the joints?
-- Tracing it to its source, he discovered it to be caused by a sudden extraor-dinary rising and stiffening of all the risen and stiff hair on Mr. Cruncher's head.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am a Bachelor in Theologia,' answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence.
-- Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or perhaps not...I really am not sure," Vronsky answered heedlessly, with a vague recollection of something stiff and tedious evoked by the name Karenina.
-- "Only you mustn't be polite and stiff with her.
-- "Forgive me for coming, but I couldn't pass the day without seeing you," he went on, speaking French, as he always did to avoid using the stiff Russian plural form, so impossibly frigid between them, and the dangerously intimate singular.
-- Not feeling the motion of her legs, Laska bounded with a stiff gallop, so that at each bound she could stop short, to the right, away from the wind that blew from the east before sunrise, and turned facing the wind.
-- Pulling the stiff rein and holding in the good horse that snorted with impatience and seemed begging to be let go, Levin looked round at Ivan sitting beside him, not knowing what to do with his unoccupied hand, continually pressing down his shirt as it puffed out, and he tried to find something to start a conversation about with him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not look at the inhumanly stiff faces of the starveling gray men lying on the wooden tables.
-- These two beady-eyed guinea pigs, chittering in a battery jar, would in two days be stiff and dead.
-- True, the Terry who went off to the artillery did not look upon him dourly, but Major Rippleton Holabird became erect and stiff when they passed in the corridor.
-- She shifted the electric fan so that it played more upon him, and on soft toes she crept into their stiff sitting-room.
-- As they entered, Martin saw under a street light the first stirring of life: a crying woman and a bewildered child following an open wagon in which were heaped a dozen stiff bodies.
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：
-- Like a clerk, he wore no beard, nor moustache, but had been so long unshaven that his chin looked like a stiff greyish brush.
-- Chapter V his was a gentleman no longer young, of a stiff and port-Tly appearance, and a cautious and sour countenance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- you have had a pleasant evening, ma'am,' said Peggotty, standing as stiff as a barrel in the centre of the room, with a candlestick in her hand.
-- He was dressed in a canvasjacket, and a pair of such very stiff trousers that they would havestood quite as well alone, without any legs in them.
-- It was a stiff leather purse,with a snap, and had three bright shillings in it, which Peggottyhad evidently polished up with whitening, for my greater delight.
-- Behold me, on the morrow, in a much-worn little white hat, with ablack crape round it for my mother, a black jacket, and a pair ofhard stiff corduroy trouserswhich Miss Murdstone considered thebest armour for the legs in that fight with the world which wasnow to come off- behold me so attired, and with my little worldlyall before me in a small trunk, sitting, a lone lorn child (as Mrs.Gummidge might have said), in the post-chaise that was carryingMr. Quinion to the London coach at Yarmouth!See, how our houseand church are lessening in the distance; how the grave beneath 149the tree is blotted out by intervening objects; how the spire pointsupward from my old playground no more, and the sky is empty!
-- Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed bythe beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed tohem me in on every side when I went down towards the longnarrow street.
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