stern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严厉的, 严格的; n. 船尾，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
-- If I do Well,' said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, 'I'll use it!'
-- By strange stern ways, and 521through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The husband's portrait was used as a weather-cock, which was connected in some way or other with the doors, and so they opened and shut of their own accord, whenever the stern old husband turned round.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing but the stern discipline of her bringing-up supported her and forced her to do what was expected of her, that is, to dance, to answer questions, to talk, even to smile.
-- she cried trying assiduously to give a stern expression to her face, into which he was gazing greedily.
-- Kitty did not speak, And her face had a stern expression.
-- "Yes; and I heard news of you, but not only through your wife," said Vronsky, checking his hint by a stern expression of face.
-- Vronsky was continually conscious of the necessity of never for a second relaxing the tone of stern official respectfulness, that he might not himself be insulted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the screw rose out of the water, beating its protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves; but the craft always kept straight ahead.
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：
-- Katerina Ivanovna looked at him with a sad but stern face, and tears trickled from her eyes.
-- He gazed at that pale, thin, irregular, angular little face, those soft blue eyes, which could flash with such fire, such stern energy, that little body still shak-ing with indignation and anger and it all seemed to him more and more strange, almost impossible.
-- His face was particularly stern and there was a sort of savage determination in it.
-- But as to Pyotr Petrovitch, I always had confidence in him,' Katerina Ivanovna continued, 'and, of course, he is not like 芒聙娄' with an extremely stern face she addressed Amalia Ivanovna so sharply and loudly that the latter was quite dis-concerted, 'not like your dressed up draggletails whom my father would not have taken as cooks into his kitchen, and my late husband would have done them honour if he had invited them in the goodness of his heart.'
-- Katerina Ivanovna rose from her chair, and with a stern and appar-ently calm voice (though she was pale and her chest was heaving) observed that 'if she dared for one moment to set her contemptible wretch of a father on a level with her papa, she, Katerina Ivanovna, would tear her cap off her head and trample it under foot.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remarked that,once or twice, when Mr. Quinion was talking, he looked at Mr.Murdstone sideways, as if to make sure of his not being displeased;and that once when Mr. Passnidge (the other gentleman) was inhigh spirits, he trod upon his foot and gave him a secret cautionwith his eyes, to observe Mr. Murdstone, who was sitting stern andsilent.
-- Overthe little mantel-shelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, builtat Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a workof art, combining composition with carpentry, which I consideredto be one of the most enviable possessions that the world couldafford.
-- It was the completest and mostdesirable bedroom ever seen- in the stern of the vessel; with a littlewindow, where the rudder used to go through; a little looking-glass, just the right height for me, nailed against the wall, andframed with oyster-shells; a little bed, which there was just roomenough to get into; and a nosegay of seaweed in a blue mug on thetable.
-- If he seems tohave been at all stern with a certain person, Peggotty- youunderstand, and so I am sure does Davy, that I am not alluding toanybody present- it is solely because he is satisfied that it is for acertain person's benefit.
-- I lay down in the old little bed in the stern of the boat, and thewind came moaning on across the flat as it had done before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak, his features smudged, grimy, and undiscoverable from the smoke and heat, his smock-frock burnt into holes and dripping with water, the ash stem of his sheep-crook charred six inches shorter, advanced with the humility stern adversity had thrust upon him up to the slight female form in the saddle.
-- Stern in the outlines of action, mild in the details, he was serious throughout all.
-- The handsome sergeant's features were during this speech as rigid and stern as John Knox's in addressing his gay young queen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
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