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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt some little satisfaction in finding myself on firm ground.
-- In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon firm ground, where I sat down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess that fatigue began to tell severely upon me; but my uncle was as firm and as hard as he had been on the first day.
-- He never lost sight of me, and on many occasions his arm supplied me with firm and solid support.
-- I was about to fall headlong into the gaping well, when I was drawn back by a firm and powerful hand.
-- The worthy and excellent Professor Hardwigg could not of course make any mistake about the matter; but I believe he deliberately closed his eyes, and continued on his way with a firm and unalterable step.
-- He moved slowly along the firm and solid granite wall.
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：
-- And there he was gener-ous and curiously potent; he stayed firm inside her, giving to her, while she was active...wildly, passionately active, coming to her own crisis.
-- He laid his hand close and firm over her secret places, in a kind of close greeting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jeremiah watched his manner of adjusting it, with jealous eyes; tried it with his hands, to be sure that he had a firm hold of it; bade him for his life be careful what he was about; and then stole out on tiptoe to open the door for him.
-- But her grey hair was not more immovable in its two folds, than were her firm lips.
-- 'The Circumlocution Department, sir,' Mr Barnacle replied, 'may have possibly recommended possibly I cannot say that some public claim against the insolvent estate of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
-- A disappointed mind he had, but a mind too firm and healthy for such unwholesome air.
-- Two months had barely gone by in all, when Bleeding Heart Yard had become so familiar with short-commons again, that the treat was forgotten there; when nothing seemed new in the partnership but the paint of the inscription on the door-posts, DOYCE AND CLENNAM; when it appeared even to Clennam himself, that he had had the affairs of the firm in his mind for years.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.
-- The ever-green arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hang-ing baskets were filled.
-- Therefore the next time the old gentleman found him getting restless and moody and ordered him off, he went to Vienna, where he had musi-cal friends, and fell to work with the firm determination to distinguish himself.
-- The others sat round the fire, talking away, utterly regardless of the lapse of time, till Meg, whose maternal was impressed with a firm conviction that Daisy had tumbled out of be, and Demi set his nightgown afire studying the structure of matches, made a move to go.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
-- I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
-- But still more curious was the fact of a lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron, the flesh perfectly firm about it.
-- And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses; when all these conceits had passed through his brain, Ahab's brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after some stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the firm thing from its place.
-- A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not a farthing more,' was the firm reply of Mr. Limbkins.
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