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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A couple of weeks went by, and suddenly the general and his wife were once more gloomy and silent, and the ice was as firm as ever.
-- He would walk down the rows of the unfortunate prisoners, stop before each individual and ask after his needs he never sermonized them; he spoke kindly to them he gave them money; he brought them all sorts of necessaries for the jour-ney, and gave them devotional books, choosing those who could read, under the firm conviction that they would read to those who could not, as they went along.
-- It would have been incon-sistent with her character if in these visits she had been pursuing a chimera; her project was not chimerical at all; she was building on a firm basis on her knowledge of the character of the Epanchin family, especially Aglaya, whom she studied closely.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time.
-- I have come from afar, even from Lycia and the banks of the river Xan-thus, where I have left my wife, my infant son, and much wealth to tempt whoever is needy; nevertheless, I head my Lycian soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder, while you look on, without even bidding your men stand firm in defence of their wives.
-- They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans.
-- Then, when you have put heart into all our companies, we will stand firm here and fight the Danaans however hard they press us, for there is nothing else to be done.
-- Hector soon marked the havoc Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomed was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses who was beside him, 'Great Hector is bearing down upon us and we shall be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The feeling was a curious pressure, the grip of a heavy, firm hand, and it bore his chin irresistibly to the table.
-- Thence his mind wandered back again to a topic that had taken a curiously firm hold of his imagination.
-- "There's a story," said the mariner, fixing Mr. Marvel with an eye that was firm and deliberate; "there's a story about an Invisible Man, for instance."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting.
-- He was going to find Sea Cow, if there was such a person in the sea, and he was going to find a quiet island with good firm beach-es for seals to live on, where men could not get at them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- When he spoke of courage, their looks were firm and responsive; when he alluded to their injuries, their eyes kindled with fury; when he mentioned the taunts of the women, they dropped their heads in shame; but when he pointed out their means of vengeance, he struck a chord which never failed to thrill in the breast of an Indian.
-- was the firm reply.
-- Filling it with water, he retired a short distance, to a place where the ground was more firm and dry; here he coolly seated himself, and after taking a long, and, apparently, a grateful draught, he com-menced a very strict examination of the fragments of food left by the Hurons, which had hung in a wallet on his arm.
-- He wishes to confer with Munro!Faith, sir, I have much inclination to indulge the man, if it should only be to let him behold the firm countenance we maintain in spite of his numbers and his summons.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarcely had the four castaways set foot on firm ground, than they all, thinking of the absent one, simultaneously exclaimed, "Perhaps he will try to swim to land!Let us save him!let us save him!"
-- But the balloon will hold six " "That will be enough, we will go," answered Harding in a firm voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nell was not a little alarmed to hear this, supposing that the lady might be intimately acquainted with the firm of Short and Codlin; but what followed tended to reassure her.
-- That amiable virgin, having clung to the skirts of the Law from her earliest youth; having sustained herself by their aid, as it were, in her first running alone, and maintained a firm grasp upon them ever since; had passed her life in a kind of legal childhood.
-- 'He lives in my house,' said Dick; 'at least in the house occupied by the firm in which I'm a sort of a of a managing partner a difficult fellow to get anything out of, but we like him we like him.'
-- In the pale moonlight, which lent a wanness of its own to the delicate face where thoughtful care already mingled with the winning grace and loveliness of youth, the too bright eye, the spiritual head, the lips that pressed each other with such high resolve and courage of the heart, the slight figure firm in its bearing and yet so very weak, told their silent tale; but told it only to the wind that rustled by, which, taking up its burden, carried, perhaps to some mother's pillow, faint dreams of childhood fading in its bloom, and resting in the sleep that knows no waking.
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