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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time their course was a continual ascent, as was soon evident in the strain it made on the bullocks to drag along the cumbrous wagon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I continued in that strain for a long while, pointing out to Bachmatoff how impossible it is to follow up the effects of any isolated good deed one may do, in all its influences and subtle workings upon the heart and after-actions of others.
-- Fatigue, the wine consumed, the strain of listening so long, all add-ed to the disagreeable impression which the reading had made upon them.
-- Colia, too, in spite of his melancholy, had once or twice begun sentences in much the same strain of suggestion or insinuation.
-- I don't know what I shall do with you ' The prince bent forward to listen, putting all the strain he could muster upon his understanding in order to take in what Rogojin said, and continuing to gaze at the latter's face.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ajax son of Oileus, never for a moment left the side of Ajax, son of Telamon, but as two swart oxen both strain their ut-most at the plough which they are drawing in a fallow field, and the sweat steams upwards from about the roots of their horns nothing but the yoke divides them as they break up the ground till they reach the end of the field even so did the two Ajaxes stand shoulder to shoulder by one another.
-- As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and arriving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.
-- In this wise did the two heroes strain every nerve to bear the body to the ships out of the fight.
-- Thus did she too speak through her tears with bitter moan, and then Helen for a third time took up the strain of lamentation.
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：
-- A strain of melancholy, however, blended with his triumph, rendering his voice, as usual, soft and musical.
-- Dun-can waited, until, by the cessation of the movement of the hand, he believed the strain was ended, when, by touching his shoulder, he drew the attention of the other to himself, and in a few words explained his wishes.
-- Then raising his voice to its highest tone, he poured out a strain so powerful as to be heard even amid the din of that bloody field.
-- Gamut, who had stood prepared to pour forth his spirit in song when the visitors entered, after delaying a moment, drew a strain from his pipe, and commenced a hymn that might have worked a miracle, had faith in its efficacy been of much avail.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I lay quiet, waiting to sever these last when the strain should be once more lightened by a breath of wind.
-- I thought this made it still more dangerous; yet the strain was so heavy that I half feared to meddle.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
-- It was a finer mental strain in her that made possible her depression and loneliness.
-- The strain of her own plans were considerable, and the feeling that she was not welcome here was strong.
-- As she contemplated her new state, the strain from the parlour below stole upward.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I didn't see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
-- I begun to tell about Sheffield, and how we lived there, and all about the English Wilkses, and so on; but I didn't get pretty fur till the doctor begun to laugh; and Levi Bell, the lawyer, says: 'Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you.
-- It wouldn't strain me none, after I got my hand in.
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