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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tracks like that mean a stiff gallop.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Count's stiff manner relaxed at once as he returned the student's bow.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarce-ly remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt fromhaving stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
-- Above them was anenormous flag and, beneath, on long tables was the loot of the gardens of the town, ferns, banks of roses, crimson andyellow and white, proud sheaths of golden gladioli, masses of varicolored nasturtiums, tall stiff hollyhocks rearingdeep maroon and creamy heads above the other flowers.
-- She saw the little Zouave, a split-oak basket over his unwounded arm, making the rounds of the crowd on herside of the hall and saw women, old and young, laughing, eager, tugging at bracelets, squealing in pretended pain asearrings came from pierced flesh, helping each other undo stiff necklace clasps, unpinning brooches from bosoms.
-- Between the saber and the pistol was a daguerreotype of Charles himself, very stiff and proud in his grayuniform, his great brown eyes shining out of the frame and a shy smile on his lips.
-- Of course, he can't walk far with his stiff knee, but he was all for riding away with us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I wouldn't wish to be stiff company," said Joe.
-- I went circuitously to Miss Havisham's by all the back ways, and rang at the bell constrainedly, on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves.
-- "Thankee, Sir," said Joe, stiff from head to foot, "I'll take whichever is most agreeable to yourself."
-- Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men, and with a very knowing assumption of being stiff in the knees.
-- Time passed Thomas on in the mill, while his father was thinking about it, and there he stood in a long-tailed coat and a stiff shirt-collar.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sturdy little pony, spreading out his legs, in a stiff and ludicrous attitude, got from under the Professor' slegs, and left him standing, with both feet on a separate stone, like the Colossus of Rhodes .
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：
-- She went over to the man, who stood up at attention, his worn face stiff and blank, his eyes watching her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gave him one glassy kiss, and four stiff fingers muffled in worsted.
-- With her cold grey eyes and her cold grey hair, and her immovable face, as stiff as the folds of her stony head-dress, her being beyond the reach of the seasons seemed but a fit sequence to her being beyond the reach of all changing emotions.
-- He had a large watch-chain and bunch of seals, a coat buttoned up to inconvenience, a waistcoat buttoned up to inconvenience, an unwrinkled pair of trousers, a stiff pair of boots.
-- This was an amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap for expression, and a stiff yellow wig perched unevenly on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on.
-- He was now in retirement, and hence (in a ponderous white cravat, like a stiff snow-drift) was so obliging as to shade the dinner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come here, Amy, and do the fainting scene, for you are as stiff as a poker in that.'
-- Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino box for a coffin.
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