solid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 固体的； 结实的， 稳固的， 可靠的n. 固体，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：
-- But, he had not yet spoken to her on the subject; the assassination at the deserted chateau far away beyond the heaving water and the long, tong, dusty roads the solid stone chateau which had itself become the mere mist of a dream had been done a year, and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart.
-- The barrister was keen enough to divine that the banker would not have gone so far in his expression of opinion on any less solid ground than moral certainty.
-- Great rents and splits branched out in the solid walls, like crystallisa-tion; stupefied birds wheeled about and dropped into the furnace; four fierce figures trudged away, East, West, North, and South, along the nightenshrouded roads, guided by the beacon they had lighted, towards their next destination.
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：
-- 'He is a wise man,' said she to herself 'It is well; and he dances delightfully that is also good; but has he solid knowledge?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The union Anna had cemented turned out to be of no solid character, and family harmony was breaking down again at the same point.
-- On this course nine obstacles had been arranged: the stream, a big and solid barrier five feet high, just before the pavilion, a dry ditch, a ditch full of water, a precipitous slope, an Irish barricade (one of the most difficult obstacles, consisting of a mound fenced with brushwood, beyond which was a ditch out of sight for the horses, so that the horse had to clear both obstacles or might be killed); then two more ditches filled with water, and one dry one; and the end of the race was just facing the pavilion.
-- The Tsar and the whole court and crowds of people were all gazing at them--at him, and Mahotin a length ahead of him, as they drew near the "devil," as the solid barrier was called.
-- But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
-- The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came into the over- bright living-room--and he found her mother, solid as a pyramid, permanent-looking as sunless winter.
-- Wheatsylvania was a "good location," he said: solid Scandinavian and Dutch and German and Bohemian farmers who paid their bills.
-- Great mistake for any doctor to not identify himself with some good solid religious denomination, whether he believes the stuff or not.
-- that would be solid and not gaseous--that would save kids and prevent epidemics.
-- When he added a drop containing the Principle to a growth of staphylococcus which was a gray film on the solid surface of agar, the drop was beautifully outlined by bare patches, as the enemy made its attack, so that the agar slant looked like moth-eaten beeswax.
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：
-- Hm 芒聙娄 so it is finally settled; you have determined to marry a sensible business man, Avdotya Romanovna, one who has a fortune (has already made his fortune, that is so much more solid and impressive) a man who holds two government posts and who shares the ideas of our most rising generation, as mother writes, and who seems to be kind, as Dounia herself observes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Try not to associate bodily defectswith mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.'
-- It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vastexpense.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fluted pilasters, worked from the solid stone, decorated its front, and above the roof the chimneys were panelled or columnar, some coped gables with finials and like features still retaining traces of their Gothic extraction.
-- That's turned into a solid iron pump with a large stone trough, and all complete."
-- The bustling swarm had swept the sky in a scattered and uniform haze, which now thickened to a nebulous centre: this glided on to a bough and grew still denser, till it formed a solid black spot upon the light.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At night the wicket gate is replaced by a solid door.
-- So much for their clothing; but, for the most part, their frames were solid enough; their constitutions had weathered the storms of life; their cold, hard faces were worn like coins that have been withdrawn from circulation, but there were greedy teeth behind the withered lips.
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