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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea undulated peaceably under the stern of the vessel.
-- "If you will allow me, we will examine the stern of the Nautilus."
-- Captain Nemo, Ned Land, Conseil, and I took our places in the stern of the boat.
-- And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins.
-- Presently a white smoke burst from the fore part of the vessel; some seconds after, the water, agitated by the fall of a heavy body, splashed the stern of the Nautilus, and shortly afterwards a loud explosion struck my ear.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she watched him as he sat near her, very near to her, in the stern of the canoe, his legs coming towards hers, his feet touching hers.
-- And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its an脙娄sthetic sleep.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope it will be a lesson to you to make no more rash journeys on these hills,' cried Heathcliff's stern voice from the kitchen entrance.
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