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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall in person, and had rather stern features; but there was an exceeding sweetness in his look, and a stamp of Highland poetry about his whole bearing.
-- At others, she would keep pace with them, and make such enormous leaps that there was imminent danger of her being pitched over on her side, and then again, every now and then the storm-driven sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would sweep over the deck from stem to stern with tremendous violence.
-- Their report was that one of the branches of the screw was bent, and had got jammed against the stern post, which of course prevented all possibility of rotation.
-- Stern as the decree may seem, I will not repine.
-- What was Glenarvan about?—standing up in the stern he was looking toward the horizon for some chimerical help.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a large, impassive, heavy-featured woman with a stern set expression of mouth.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began in a stern voice, and before him generals, hard men of the world, bowed down, and ladies fell to the ground fainting.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- He found the Danaans, servants of Mars, in council at the stern of Agamemnon's ship, and took his place in the midst of them.
-- He found him by the stern of his ship already putting his goodly array about his shoulders, and right glad was he that his brother had come.
-- When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tyde-us, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.
-- Achilles saw and took note, for he was standing on the stern of his ship watching the hard stress and struggle of the fight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went past the steersman to the taff-rail, and saw the water come foaming under the stern and the bubbles go dancing and vanishing in her wake.
-- The creature's face was turned for one brief instant out of the dimness of the stern towards this illumi-nation, and I saw that the eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had a boat at our stern just before the storm, but she was first staved by dash-ing against the ship's rudder, and in the next place she broke away, and either sunk or was driven off to sea; so there was no hope from her.
-- Here I found that the ship was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or, rather earth, that her stern lay lifted up upon the bank, and her head low, almost to the water.
-- All the stern and quarter of her were beaten to pieces by the sea; and as her forecastle, which stuck in the rocks, had run on with great violence, her mainmast and foremast were brought by the board - that is to say, bro-ken short off; but her bowsprit was sound, and the head and bow appeared firm.
-- Had the stern of the ship been fixed, and the forepart broken off, I am persuad-ed I might have made a good voyage; for by what I found in those two chests I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board; and, if I may guess from the course she steered, she must have been bound from Buenos Ayres, or the Rio de la Plata, in the south part of America, beyond the Brazils to the Havannah, in the Gulf of Mexico, and so perhaps to Spain.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time he was tense, as if a stern hand had been laid upon his shoulder.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Den I swum to de stern uv it en tuck a-holt.
-- We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the sky-light, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water.
-- 'She was a-visiting there at Booth's Landing, and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend's house, Miss What-you-may-call-herQI disremember her name and they lost their steering- oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, stern first, about two mile, and saddle-baggsed on the wreck, and the ferryman and the nig-ger woman and the horses was all lost, but Miss Hooker she made a grab and got aboard the wreck.
-- But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first.
-- He was in the river under the stern oar, with just his nose out.
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