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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My back had now become very stiff and sore, my tonsils were painful from the cabman's fingers, and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails; my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, not stiff they were, but distort-ed in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them.
-- The seventh pair had a new yoke, and they looked rather stiff and tired.
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：
-- There were no flowers, and various knick-knacks, put away during the summer, had not been replaced; there was something cheerless and stiff about the room which had always seemed so friendly; it gave you an odd feeling, as though someone were lying dead on the other side of the wall.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were easily made with straight stiff branches, without knots, but the points with which they must be armed, that is to say, a substance to serve in lieu of iron, could not be met with so easily.
-- It was only a koala, better known under the name of the sloth, being about the size of a large dog, and having stiff hair of a dirty color, the paws armed with strong claws, which enabled it to climb trees and feed on the leaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough.
-- Lest anybody should feel a curiosity to know how Kit was clad, it may be briefly remarked that he wore no livery, but was dressed in a coat of pepper-and-salt with waistcoat of canary colour, and nether garments of iron-grey; besides these glories, he shone in the lustre of a new pair of boots and an extremely stiff and shiny hat, which on being struck anywhere with the knuckles, sounded like a drum.
-- There were also present, a couple of water-side men, bearing between them certain machines called drags; even these fellows were accommodated with a stiff glass a-piece; and as they drank with a great relish, and were naturally of a red-nosed, pimple-faced, convivial look, their presence rather increased than detracted from that decided appearance of comfort, which was the great characteristic of the party.
-- Miss Brass sat herself down, in a very stiff and frigid state, and seemed as indeed she was not a little astonished to find that the lodger and her mysterious correspondent were one and the same person.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But he was very stiff and proud;He said "You needn't shout so loud!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The supervisor stood up straight and stiff and told his story like a lesson; and you should have seen how the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at each other, and forgot to smoke in their surprise and interest.
-- John TrelawneyPostscript I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master a stiff man, which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.
-- Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.
-- Then, when we had eaten our pork and each had a good stiff glass of brandy grog, the three chiefs got together in a corner to discuss our prospects.
-- There were the two watchmen, sure enough: red-cap on his back, as stiff as a handspike, with his arms stretched out like those of a crucifix and his teeth showing through his open lips; Israel Hands propped against the bulwarks, his chin on his chest, his hands lying open before him on the deck, his face as white, under its tan, as a tallow candle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes flashed sullenly; his teeth were set; his stiff body, clenched fists, and head shrunk between his shoulders, betrayed the violent agitation that pervaded his whole frame.
-- Twenty miles to the west were the Guianas, a French territory, on which we could have found an easy refuge; but a stiff breeze was blowing, and the furious waves would not have allowed a single boat to face them.
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：
-- "In compressed tabloids," said Birkin, looking at the dry, stiff little body of the Baronet.
-- Ursula was stiff all over with resentment by this time, resentment of the whole atmosphere.
-- She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly.
-- Then came Sir Joshua, in an overcoat, and lastly Hermione, striding with stiff grace from out of a great mantle of purple silk, her head tied up in purple and gold.
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