muscular是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 肌肉的; 肌肉发达的; 强有力的，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：
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt a muscular chest, and in another moment the whole mass of struggling, excited men shot out into the crowded hall.
-- He felt the hand that had closed round his wrist with his disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm, patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He enjoyed the slight ache in his strong leg, he enjoyed the muscular sensation of movement in his chest as he breathed.
-- He bared his muscular arms.
-- He had eaten nothing for a whole day, he had not slept for two nights, had spent several hours undressed in the frozen air, and felt not simply fresher and stronger than ever, but felt utterly independent of his body; he moved without muscular effort, and felt as if he could do anything.
-- And there came over Levin a new feeling of love for this man, till then so little known to him, when he saw how slowly and tenderly Kitty kissed his muscular hand.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weath-er-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of ex-quisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
-- 'The sinews and bones of a man carry me through it all,' said the hunter, surveying his muscular limbs with a sim-plicity that betrayed the honest pleasure the compliment afforded him; 'there are larger and heavier men to be found in the settlements, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to take breath, or who has kept the hounds with-in hearing during a chase of hours.
-- The instant he caught a glimpse of the white plume that waved in the hat of Montcalm, his eye lighted, and age no longer appeared to possess any influence over his vast and still muscular person.
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：
-- I see already his muscular calves encased in the gaiters episcopal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this time, certain vans had arrived for the conveyance of the goods, and divers strong men in caps were balancing chests of drawers and other trifles of that nature upon their heads, and performing muscular feats which heightened their complexions considerably.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time he saw a bather carried along in the current outside the mouth of the cove, and guessed in an instant that there was but a poor chance for him unless he should be possessed of unusual muscular powers.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had broad shoulders, a well-developed chest, muscular arms, and strong square-fisted hands; the joints of his fingers were covered with tufts of fiery red hair.
-- said Rastignac, as he watched Goriot's muscular arms; there was not a sound in the room while the old man, with the aid of the rope, was kneading the silver like dough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends!--"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
-- By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
-- That he was a muscular man, strong on his legs, and that he was browned and hardened by exposure to weather.
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：
-- It's only muscular paralysis with Sir Clifford it doesn't affect him,' said Connie, lying as naturally as breathing.
-- Save for his hands and wrists and face and neck he was white as milk, with fine slender muscular flesh.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion.
-- The latter gentleman, who did not appear quite so much accustomed to good society, or quite so much at his ease in it--one of the two--seated himself, after undergoing several muscular affections of the limbs, and the head of his stick into his mouth, with some embarrassment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was almost moved to some muscular display as he thought of it.
扩展阅读：