strengthen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 加强, 巩固，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They agreed readily, for their walk had sharpened their appetites; and although it was not their usual dinner-hour, no one refused to strengthen himself with a piece of venison.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course he distorted the truth in order to strengthen your claim, and to serve your interests.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, he resolved to keep Two before his mind, as the hour, and so to strengthen himself in the interval that he might be able, after that time, to strengthen others.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that he had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea--he could say it without self-flattery--calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government.
-- The priest waited a few seconds to see if he would not say more, and closing his eyes he said quickly, with a broad, Vladimirsky accent: "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy will strengthen us.
-- Even the holy fathers had doubts, and prayed to God to strengthen their faith.
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：
-- With a view to assist his plans by any suggestion of his own, and to strengthen the temptation, he left the beech, and straggled, as if with-out an object, to the spot where Le Renard was seated.
-- I take the woman to a distance, where I will strengthen her against any fur-ther attacks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it wasnew to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, orto strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.
-- 'Mygood opinion cannot strengthen his attachment to some peoplewhom he knows,' said Agnes, with a smile; 'it is not worth theirhaving.'
-- As his fancy died out, I would no more havetried to strengthen any power I had, than I would have marriedhim on his being forced to take me for his wife.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No!That will not alter my decision--it will only strengthen it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the South had needed the cheering news from Chickamauga to strengthen its morale through the winter.
-- We have to strengthen the fortifications of Atlanta with more miles of rifle pits, and theGeneral can't spare any men from the front to do it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he thought to himself, 'I can eat salad, it will refresh and strengthen me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If no news comes to-morrow, let us walk in the country on Sunday morning, and strengthen you for another week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some laughed; some said, by way of complete excuse, that the post was virtually a sinecure, and any fool who could spell his name was good enough for it; some, and these the more solemn political oracles, said that Decimus did wisely to strengthen himself, and that the sole constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decimus, was, that Decimus should strengthen himself.
-- To see the modest head again bent down over its task, and the nimble fingers busy at their old work though she was not so absorbed in it, but that her compassionate eyes were often raised to his face, and, when they drooped again had tears in them to be so consoled and comforted, and to believe that all the devotion of this great nature was turned to him in his adversity to pour out its inexhaustible wealth of goodness upon him, did not steady Clennam's trembling voice or hand, or strengthen him in his weakness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards night, I fixed upon a proper place, under a rock, and marked out a semicircle for my encamp-ment; which I resolved to strengthen with a work, wall, or fortification, made of double piles, lined within with cables, and without with turf.
-- Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, my heart was not only com-forted, but I was guided and encouraged to pray earnestly to God for deliverance: when I had done praying I took up my Bible, and opening it to read, the first words that pre-sented to me were, 'Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked simple and charming enough to strengthen the daring of any lover.
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