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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My reply was so unexpected, that Mr. Jaggers put the handkerchief back into his pocket without completing the usual performance, folded his arms, and looked with stern attention at me, though with an immovable face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You give it mouth enough, you do; but give it mouth in your own building at least,' remonstrated E. W. B. with stern irony.
-- RACHAELA candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection, that of all the casualties of this existence upon earth, not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as Death.
-- To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
-- A few stern voices called out 'No!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Look around you," said my uncle in a stern voice, "heaven knows what profound abysses you may have to look down.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions.
-- There was the interminable Sunday of his nonage; when his mother, stern of face and unrelenting of heart, would sit all day behind a Bible bound, like her own construction of it, in the hardest, barest, and straitest boards, with one dinted ornament on the cover like the drag of a chain, and a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves as if it, of all books!were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse.
-- The old influence of her presence and her stern strong voice, so gathered about her son, that he felt conscious of a renewal of the timid chill and reserve of his childhood.
-- Calling these things to mind, and ranging Mr Pancks in a row with them, Arthur Clennam leaned this day to the opinion, without quite deciding on it, that the last of the Patriarchs was the drifting Booby aforesaid, with the one idea of keeping the bald part of his head highly polished: and that, much as an unwieldy ship in the Thames river may sometimes be seen heavily driving with the tide, broadside on, stern first, in its own way and in the way of everything else, though making a great show of navigation, when all of a sudden, a little coaly steam-tug will bear down upon it, take it in tow, and bustle off with it; similarly the cumbrous Patriarch had been taken in tow by the snorting Pancks, and was now following in the wake of that dingy little craft.
-- For, while all that was hard and stern in his recollection, remained Reality on being proved was obdurate to the sight and touch, and relaxed nothing of its old indomitable grimness the one tender recollection of his experience would not bear the same test, and melted away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This entirely softens the stern sire.
-- At the stern order the buzz ceased, and fifty pairs of blue, black, gray, and brown eyes were obediently fixed upon his awful countenance.
-- 'I never shall forgive you,' was Jo's stern answer, and from that moment she ignored Amy entirely.
-- When that is off we shall see how he regards the fair maid whose heart he can-not win, though her stern father bestows her hand,' returned the troubadour.
-- This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dropping his harpoon, the brawny savage caught him in his arms, and by an almost miraculous dexterity and strength, sent him high up bodily into the air; then slightly tapping his stern in mid-somerset, the fellow landed with bursting lungs upon his feet, while Queequeg, turning his back upon him, lighted his tomahawk pipe and passed it to me for a puff.
-- The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
-- By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he had for a clout what do you think, I saw? why thunder alive, man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out.
-- On the after side, or side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats.
-- The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis.
-- Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and haz-ard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern, and got all into their boat.
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