strain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 拉紧, 紧张, 拉力; 劳累, 过分疲劳; vt. /vi. 尽量利用; 拉紧; 扭伤; 过，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own 74 Sons and Lovershands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every pulse and heart in Saint Antoine was on high-fever strain and at high-fever heat.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's just this," said the doctor, taking a finger of his kid glove in his white hands and pulling it, "if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.
-- The next rows were easier, but still Levin had to strain every nerve not to drop behind the peasants.
-- He sat on his bed in the darkness, crouched up, hugging his knees, and holding his breath from the strain of thought, he pondered.
-- One may sit for several hours at a stretch with one's legs crossed in the same position, if one knows that there's nothing to prevent one's changing one's position; but if a man knows that he must remain sitting so with crossed legs, then cramps come on, the legs begin to twitch and to strain towards the spot to which one would like to draw them.
-- said Stepan Arkadyevitch, evidently weary of the strain of thought.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the strain of study for examinations Martin was peculiarly vexing in regard to "laying in the best quality medical terms like the best quality sterilizers--not for use but to impress your patients."
-- III Gottlieb had sent him into Zenith, to the huge Zenith General Hospital, to secure a strain of meningococcus from an interesting patient.
-- "I am Dr. Arrowsmith," he snorted, "and I've been informed that even probationers learn that the first duty of a nurse is to stand when addressing doctors!I wish to find Ward D, to take a strain of--IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW!--a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me--" "Oh, gee, I've been getting fresh again.
-- It was all so much easier, now that he was partly freed from the tyrannical honesty of Gottliebism, from the unswerving quest for causes which, as it drove through layer below layer, seemed ever farther from the bottommost principles, from the intolerable strain of learning day by day how much he did not know.
-- The speed, the casting away of all caution, wrought in him a high exultation, and it was blessed to be in the cool air and alone, after the strain of Mrs. Novak's watching.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am young and strong, I don't get tired, but it was a great strain for mother,' answered Dounia.
-- And if he were not lying in high fever it was perhaps just because this continual inner strain helped to keep him on his legs and in possession of his fac-ulties.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know what the tunes were- if there were suchthings in the performance at all, which I doubt- but the influence ofthe strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrowsuntil I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away myappetite; and lastly, to make me so sleepy that I couldn't keep myeyes open.
-- The strain was new to me, and yet it was soold that it filled my heart brimful; like a friend come back from along absence.
-- I noticed, Iremember, as he paused, looking at me with his handsome head alittle thrown back, and his glass raised in his hand, that though the 396freshness of the sea-wind was on his face, and it was ruddy, therewere traces in it, made since I last saw it, as if he had appliedhimself to some habitual strain of the fervent energy which, whenroused, was so passionately roused within him.
-- For don't you see,' said Mr. Omer,touching me with his pipe, 'it ain't likely that a man so short ofbreath as myself, and a grandfather too, would go and strain pointswith a little bit of a blue-eyed blossom, like her?'
-- It was deepened, ifit were changed at all; but it was as undefined as ever, andaddressed me like a strain of sorrowful music faintly heard in thenight.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple consciousness that superhuman strain was no longer required had at once put a period to her power to continue it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She played a simple air, and her voice 138 Frankensteinaccompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, not now," said Mrs. Meade, drawing him closer to her, a sudden look of strain coming over her face.
-- We're still in mourning, you see, and it'squite a strain on her all this gaiety and music, poor child."
-- "I'm not in a state," replied Pitty, surprisingly, for less strain than this had frequently brought on fainting fits.
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