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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I think it was so splendid in Father to go as chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier,' said Meg warmly.
-- Simple as the toilets were, there was a great deal of running up and down, laughing and talking, and at one time a strong smell of burned hair pervaded the house.
-- 'I like good strong words that mean something,' replied Jo, catching her hat as it took a leap off her head preparatory to flying away altogether.
-- Mr. Davis had evidently taken his coffee too strong that morning, there was an east wind, which always affected his neural-gia, and his pupils had not done him the credit which he felt he deserved.
-- She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings al-ways do unless cast out at once.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
-- All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
-- Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.
-- He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong suspicion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The child made a strong effort, but it was an unsuccessful one.
-- He needn't haven taken the trouble to shrink from Mr. Bumble's glance, however; for that functionary, on whom the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat had made a very strong impression, thought that now the undertaker had got Oliver upon trial the subject was better avoided, until such time as he should be firmly bound for seven years, and all danger of his being returned upon the hands of the parish should be thus effectually and legally overcome.
-- screamed Charlotte: seizing Oliver with her utmost force, which was about equal to that of a moderately strong man in particularly good training.
-- And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up, in a little saucepan, a basin full of broth: strong enough, Oliver thought, to furnish an ample dinner, when reduced to the regulation strength, for three hundred and fifty paupers, at the lowest computation.
-- 'He has just had a basin of beautiful strong broth, sir,' replied Mrs. Bedwin: drawing herself up slightly, and laying strong emphasis on the last word: to intimate that bet ween slops, and broth will compounded, there existed no affinity or connection whatsoever.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything nourish-es what is strong already.
-- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule.'
-- But Elizabeth had now recollected herself, and making a strong effort for it, was able to assure with tolerable firmness that the prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she wished her all imaginable happiness.
-- 'I must think your language too strong in speaking of both,' replied Jane; 'and I hope you will be convinced of it by seeing them happy together.
-- It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He swam so strong after the boat that he would have reached me very quickly, there being but little wind; upon which I stepped into the cabin, and fetching one of the fowling-pieces, I presented it at him, and told him I had done him no hurt, and if he would be quiet I would do him none.
-- My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight.
-- There appeared before me a lit-tle opening of the land, and I found a strong current of the tide set into it; so I guided my raft as well as I could, to keep in the middle of the stream.
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