stout是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 矮胖的； 坚固的，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：
-- Madame Defarge was a stout wom-an of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong features, and great composure of man-ner.
-- He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood, a moment before; but the wretched father was 156 A tale of two citiesgrovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.
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：
-- A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two other ladies began talking to Anna, and a stout elderly lady tucked up her feet, and made observations about the heating of the train.
-- The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a tall, stout woman, with an unhealthily sallow face and splendid, pensive black eyes.
-- Her guests stepped out at the wide entrance, and the stout porter, who used to read the newspapers in the mornings behind the glass door, to the edification of the passers-by, noiselessly opened the immense door, letting the visitors pass by him into the house.
-- In spite of his feeling of pride and, as it were, of the return of youth, with his favorite daughter on his arm, he felt awkward, and almost ashamed of his vigorous step and his sturdy, stout limbs.
-- As he got nearer to the carriage he saw beside Stepan Arkadyevitch not the prince but a handsome, stout young man in a Scotch cap, with long ends of ribbon behind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bring down my mackintosh and traveling-cloak, and some stout shoes, though we shall do little walking.
-- But he found it necessary to keep up a stout heart, and to postpone the meal he craved till the following morning.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stout had precise and enormous knowledge; in his dry voice he could repeat more facts about the left little toe than you would have thought anybody would care to learn regarding the left little toe.
-- In the midst of the tour, led by Dr. Stout and the umbrella-carrying secretary of the University, the plumpest and most educational of all the bankers stopped near Clif Clawson's dissecting-table, with his derby hat reverently held behind him, and into that hat Clif dropped a pancreas.
-- Dr. Stout and the secretary comforted him; they cleaned the derby and assured him that vengeance should be done on the man who could put a pancreas in a banker's hat.
-- Dr. Stout summoned Clif, as president of the Freshmen.
-- And if sometimes I feel an exile, cold--I had to get out of Germany one time for refusing to sing Die Wacht am Rhein and trying to kill a cavalry captain--he was a stout fellow--I had to choke him--you see I am boasting, but I was a lifely Kerl thirty years ago!Ah!So!
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：
-- The persons still in the tavern were a man who appeared to be an artisan, drunk, but not ex-tremely so, sitting before a pot of beer, and his companion, a huge, stout man with a grey beard, in a short full-skirted coat.
-- Raskolnikov rushed at him with his fists, without reflecting that the stout gentleman was a match for two men like himself.
-- The stout gentleman was easy to understand, he turned to consider the girl.
-- He folded this strip in two, took off his wide, strong summer overcoat of some stout cotton material (his only outer garment) and began sewing the two ends of the rag on the inside, under the left armhole.
-- The door opened and a tall, stout man whose appearance seemed familiar to Raskolnikov came in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over a door in this wall was a board with SALEMHOUSE upon it; and through a grating in this door we weresurveyed, when we rang the bell, by a surly face, which I found, onthe door being opened, belonged to a stout man with a bull-neck, awooden leg, over-hanging temples, and his hair cut close all roundhis head.
-- After dinner we sat for an hour or so near thewindow, without talking much; and then Mr. Peggotty got up andbrought his oilskin bag and his stout stick, and laid them on thetable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm.
-- How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harri-et was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and imper-tinent in look, though not absolutely in word. More and more frightened, she immediately promised them money, and taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged them not to want more, or to use her ill. She was then able to walk, though but slowly, and was moving away but her terror and her purse were too tempting, and she was fol-lowed, or rather surrounded, by the whole gang, demanding more.
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