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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.
-- She was heavily laden, and I could make out as she drew nearer Montgomery's white-haired, broad-shouldered companion sitting cramped up with the dogs and several packing-cas- es in the stern sheets.
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：
-- When, therefore, intelligence was received at the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage be-tween the Hudson and the lakes, that Montcalm had been seen moving up the Champlain, with an army 'numerous as the leaves on the trees,' its truth was admitted with more of the craven reluctance of fear than with the stern joy that a warrior should feel, in finding an enemy within reach of his blow.
-- Against this stern and unyielding morality, supported as it was by such visible policy, there was no appeal.
-- Cora bestowed an ap-proving smile on the pious efforts of the namesake of the Jewish prince, and Heyward soon turned his steady, stern look from the outlet of the cavern, to fasten it, with a milder character, on the face of David, or to meet the wandering beams which at moments strayed from the humid eyes of Alice.
-- Animated by the words, and stimulated by the examples of their leaders, they had found their courage, and maintained their ancient rep-utation, with a zeal that did justice to the stern character of their commander.
-- Motioning the women and children aside with a stern ges-ture, he took Uncas by the arm, and led him toward the door of the council-lodge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neb took one of the oars, Herbert the other, and Pencroft remained in the stern in order to use the scull.
-- A week after, in the recess between the Chimneys and the cliff, a dockyard was prepared, and a keel five-and-thirty feet long, furnished with a stern- post at the stern and a stem at the bows, lay along the sand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fleet of barges were coming lazily on, some sideways, some head first, some stern first; all in a wrong-headed, dogged, obstinate way, bumping up against the larger craft, running under the bows of steamboats, getting into every kind of nook and corner where they had no business, and being crunched on all sides like so many walnut-shells; while each with its pair of long sweeps struggling and splashing in the water looked like some lumbering fish in pain.
-- But night-time in this dreadful spot! night, when the smoke was changed to fire; when every chimney spirited up its flame; and places, that had been dark vaults all day, now shone red-hot, with figures moving to and fro within their blazing jaws, and calling to one another with hoarse cries night, when the noise of every strange machine was aggravated by the darkness; when the people near them looked wilder and more savage; when bands of unemployed labourers paraded the roads, or clustered by torch-light round their leaders, who told them, in stern language, of their wrongs, and urged them on to frightful cries and threats; when maddened men, armed with sword and firebrand, spurning the tears and prayers of women who would restrain them, rushed forth on errands of terror and destruction, to work no ruin half so surely as their own night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins (for contagious disease and death had been busy with the living crops); when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake night, when some called for bread, and some for drink to drown their cares, and some with tears, and some with staggering feet, and some with bloodshot eyes, went brooding home night, which, unlike the night that Heaven sends on earth, brought with it no peace, nor quiet, nor signs of blessed sleep who shall tell the terrors of the night to the young wandering child!
-- The child admired and praised his work, and shortly afterwards departed; thinking, as she went, how strange it was, that this old man, drawing from his pursuits, and everything around him, one stern moral, never contemplated its application to himself; and, while he dwelt upon the uncertainty of human life, seemed both in word and deed to deem himself immortal.
-- As he was not one of those rough spirits who would strip fair Truth of every little shadowy vestment in which time and teeming fancies love to array her and some of which become her pleasantly enough, serving, like the waters of her well, to add new graces to the charms they half conceal and half suggest, and to awaken interest and pursuit rather than languor and indifference as, unlike this stern and obdurate class, he loved to see the goddess crowned with those garlands of wild flowers which tradition wreathes for her gentle wearing, and which are often freshest in their homeliest shapes he trod with a light step and bore with a light hand upon the dust of centuries, unwilling to demolish any of the airy shrines that had been raised above it, if any good feeling or affection of the human heart were hiding thereabouts.
-- Melting from this stern and obdurate, into the tender and pathetic mood, Mr Swiveller groaned a little, walked wildly up and down, and even made a show of tearing his hair, which, however, he thought better of, and wrenched the tassel from his nightcap instead.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the stern eyes squinted.
-- "But he is wandering away," said the justiciary, smiling and leaning over to the stern associate.
-- said the stern associate.
-- said the stern associate.
-- Maslenikoff said in a frightened and somewhat stern voice, suddenly pricking his ears.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.
-- The stern window was open, for it was a warm night, and you could see the moon shining behind on the ship's wake.
-- The squire was waiting for me at the stern window, all his faintness gone from him.
-- But the worst of it was that with the course I now held we turned our broadside instead of our stern to the Hispaniola and offered a target like a barn door.
-- And he and Redruth backed with a great heave that sent her stern bodily under water.
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