firm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 坚固的； 坚决的， 坚定的n. 公司， 商号，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's anadmirable piece of workmanship- firm as a rock!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure!There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.
-- A firm loud tread was now heard stamping outside; the door was opened about six inches, and somebody on the other side exclaimed "Neighbours, have ye got room for a few new-born lambs?"
-- That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency's sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love.
-- Where is your firm conviction that you would get to care for me very much?
-- She checked emotion, looked him quietly and clearly in the face, and said in her low, firm voice, "Mr. Boldwood, I promised you nothing.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, ap-pear to dismay them.
-- He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animat-ed glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
-- He knew that I could not have a more kind and at-tentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.
-- The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
-- Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If themoney it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficientlytroubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
-- Scarlett obeyed, bracing herself and catching firm hold of one of the bedposts.
-- Well, Ma fainted whenI said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.
-- 'Tis firm that I am and back to Tara you'll be going tomorrow beforeyou're disgracing the lot of us again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I held to it, and the harder it was, the stronger I held, for I was determined, and my mind firm made up.
-- "And that Mr. Jaggers--""Mr. Jaggers," said Miss Havisham, taking me up in a firm tone, "had nothing to do with it, and knew nothing of it.
-- I've had a firm mind and a firm will to have your life, since you was down here at your sister's burying.
-- Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,--out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men have a firm step, and when they walk over peas none of them stir, but girls trip and skip, and drag their feet, and the peas roll about.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in ques-tion.
-- As it approached nearer over the place where I was, it appeared to be a firm 195substance, the bottom flat, smooth, and shining very bright, from the reflection of the sea below.
-- His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
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