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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was still a stiff breeze of wind, and the ocean had not recovered its equilibrium after the recent storm.
-- They examined the ponderous vehicle, and found it sunk in the mud in a deep hollow in the stiff clay.
-- Two hours after a stiff breeze came on.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat stiff with wonder Lebedeff said some extraordinary things.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch.
-- Her once active limbs were so stiff and feeble that Jo took her for a daily airing about the house in her strong arms.
-- 'Hum, that's stiff and cool enough!I don't believe you'll ever say it, and I know he won't be satisfied if you do.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
-- At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if he did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over him.
-- Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
-- But as soon as the first glimpse of sun entered the window, up he got, with stiff and grating joints, but with a cheerful look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his forehead again against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.
-- Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon discovering any strange sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails, and shreds of black cloth, lay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very stiff neckcloths, on duty at a large private door, with a hearse drawn by four black steeds, approaching in the distance.
-- The fog was much heavier than it had been in the early part of the night; and the atmosphere was so damp, that, although no rain fell, Oliver's hair and eyebrows, within a few minutes after leaving the house, had become stiff with the half-frozen moisture that was floating about.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this paste; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried; and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay - to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it - I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months' labour.
-- It is not easy for me to express how it moved me to see what ecstasy and filial affection had worked in this poor savage at the sight of his father, and of his being delivered from death; nor indeed can I describe half the extravaganc-es of his affection after this: for he went into the boat and out of the boat a great many times: when he went in to him he would sit down by him, open his breast, and hold his father's head close to his bosom for many minutes togeth-er, to nourish it; then he took his arms and ankles, which were numbed and stiff with the binding, and chafed and rubbed them with his hands; and I, perceiving what the case was, gave him some rum out of my bottle to rub them with, which did them a great deal of good.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The low crotch of the vest revealed a stiff shirt bosom of white and pink stripes.
-- When six o'clock came she hurried eagerly away, her arms aching and her limbs stiff from sitting in one position.
-- Mrs. Morgan, as Pearl, was stiff with fright.
-- Ladies rustled by in dresses of stiff cloth, shedding affected smiles and perfume.
-- Perhaps this individual (Hurstwood) really did have a stiff hand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come boom- ing down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went.
-- One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the plac-es on the ground where Boggs stood and where Sherburn stood, and the people following him around from one place to t'other and watching everything he done, and bob- bing their heads to show they understood, and stoop- ing a little and resting their hands on their thighs to watch him mark the places on the ground with his cane; and then he stood up straight and stiff where Sherburn had stood, frowning and having his hat-brim down over his eyes, and sung out, 'Boggs!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move them, and Geppetto held his hand and showed him how to put out one foot after the other.
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