durable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 耐用的; n. 耐用品，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and I will add (since there is an 脙娄sthetics in all things), is much more handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp.
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：
-- He felt that he, himself, Gerald, had harder and more durable truths than any the other man knew.
-- He knew also how strong and durable it was.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these colleges the professors con-trive new rules and methods of agriculture and building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and manu-factures; whereby, as they undertake, one man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last for ever without repairing.
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