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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees thatwere solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
-- These refugeescried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grimpleasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog.
-- The furniture was all very solid and good, like his watch-chain.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that I knew too well upon what solid reasons all the deter-minations of the wise Houyhnhnms were founded, not to be shaken by arguments of mine, a miserable Yahoo; and therefore, after presenting him with my humble thanks for the offer of his servants' assistance in making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable time for so difficult a work, I told 359him I would endeavour to preserve a wretched being; and if ever I returned to England, was not without hopes of being useful to my own species, by celebrating the praises of the renowned Houyhnhnms, and proposing their virtues to the imitation of mankind.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
-- As she said it, she unconsciously closed her hand, as if upon a solid object, and slowly opened it as though she were releasing dust or ash.
-- He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humoured; he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense.
-- But he preserved his easy attitude; and nothing more solid went over the stone balustrades than the accumulated rosebuds now floating about, a little surface-island.
-- The ground on which I stand has ceased to be solid under my feet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long before the existence of volcanoes, it was composed of a solid body of massive trap rock lifted bodily and slowly out of the sea, by the action of the centrifugal force at work in the earth.
-- He never lost sight of me, and on many occasions his arm supplied me with firm and solid support.
-- How can you expect springs to force t heir way through these solid stone walls?"
-- After passing through this phase of the cavernous way, we suddenly came, about a mile farther on, upon a square system of arch, adopted by the early Romans, projecting from the solid rock, and keeping up the weight of the roof.
-- But a solid wall of granite still separated us from it!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He soon had the nails out: then he pulled out the back-boards, then the enlargement itself, in its solid white mount.
-- But, being solid Scotch middle class, she loathed any 'lowering' of oneself or the family.
-- And the Guth-ries, the family of four, were good solid Edinburgh middle class, enjoying everything in a solid fashion, and daring ev-erything while risking nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams.
-- This was old Christopher Casby recognisable at a glance as unchanged in twenty years and upward as his own solid furniture as little touched by the influence of the varying seasons as the old rose-leaves and old lavender in his porcelain jars.
-- The last of the Patriarchs had always been a mighty eater, and he disposed of an immense quantity of solid food with the benignity of a good soul who was feeding some one else.
-- One solid stationary point in the looseness of this gentleman's character was, that he respected and admired his sister Amy.
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