strong是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 强壮的, 强大的; 强烈的, 浓的,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- She made it a powerful merit in herself, and a strong reproach against Joe, that she wore this apron so much.
-- If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
-- The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog.
-- This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight, and assisted me up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then there came a wind, so strong that it blew off Curd-ken's hat; and away it flew over the hills: and he was forced to turn and run after it; till, by the time he came back, she had done combing and curling her hair, and had put it up again safe.
-- He took the little tailor to a mighty oak tree which 100 Grimms' Fairy Taleslay there felled on the ground, and said: 'If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.'
-- He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt his sickness leave him, and was as strong and well as in his younger days.
-- I am as strong as you are, and perhaps even stronger.'
-- 'I want a strong steed, for I am go-ing to the wars.'
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.
-- He was by turns all the most mysterious brood of vice and shame and misery; yet, however vile his life might be, the feeling of repulsion which he aroused in others was not so strong that he must be banished from their society--he paid his way.
-- "Why, he must be as strong as Augustus, King of Poland!"
-- Visions rose before his eyes; a sudden strong light revealed his sisters secretly counting over their little store, devising some girlish stratagem by which the money could be sent to him _incognito_, essaying, for the first time in their lives, a piece of deceit that reached the sublime in its unselfishness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate 22 Frankensteinhis fate if it were in my power.
-- It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was in-effectual.
-- I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.
-- But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
-- About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o'clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And before supper is over she'll be going strong and breathing fire.
-- His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whiskymingled with a faint fragrance of mint.
-- What's kept them prideful and strong all these generations?
-- in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
-- Ah, there's a womanwith fine hands for a horse!Feather light and strong as rawhide, and pretty enough to kiss for all that.
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