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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lively voices were heard this morning in the upper rooms, the main staircase to which was of hard oak, the balusters, heavy as bed-posts, being turned and moulded in the quaint fashion of their century, the handrail as stout as a parapet-top, and the stairs themselves continually twisting round like a person trying to look over his shoulder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sylvie, the stout cook, hearing her mistress' shuffling footsteps, hastened to serve the lodgers' breakfasts.
-- Christophe, the man-of-all-work, slept in one, and Sylvie, the stout cook, in the other.
-- When M. Goriot went downstairs with the lady, the stout Sylvie forthwith took her basket and followed the lover-like couple, under pretext of going to do her marketing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Merriwether was a tall, stout woman andso tightly corseted that her bust jutted forward like the prow of a ship.
-- One wagon, ahead ofthe others, bore four stout negroes with axes to cut evergreens and drag down the vines, and the back of this wagonwas piled high with napkin-covered hampers, split-oak baskets of lunch and a dozen watermelons.
-- "He insulted us all and the Confederacy too," said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneathits glittering passementerie trimmings.
-- Much good this did her, for that worthy matron, her sleeves rolled up, her stout figure swathed in alarge apron, gave her one sharp look and said: "Don't let me hear any more such foolishness, Scarlett Hamilton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made out that I was fastened to a stout perpendicular ladder a few inches from the wall,--a fixture there,--the means of ascent to the loft above.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- had not been at home above ten days, when Captain IWilliam Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my house.
-- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons.
-- I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
-- Last of all appeared Mr. Sleary: a stout man as already mentioned, with one fixed eye, and one loose eye, a voice (if it can be called so) like the efforts of a broken old pair of bellows, a flabby surface, and a muddled head which was never sober and never drunk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This demonstration of rebellion was followed by a volley of words and a stout application of whipcord; also followed by kicks on the part of the horse, which threw its head and heels upwards and tried to throw his rider.
-- The beams bound together with stout ropes, were solid and firm, and once launched by our united efforts, the improvised vessel floated tranquilly upon the waters of what the Professor had well named the Central Sea.
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 was moderately stout, and had stout thighs, but they were still strong and well-knit, the thighs of a healthy man who had taken his pleasure in life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried a stout old man, who was putting on a nightcap as if he were going to bed in a vault.
-- Such was the homily with which he improved and pointed the occasion to the company in the Lodge before turning into the sallow yard again, and going with his own poor shabby dignity past the Collegian in the dressing-gown who had no coat, and past the Collegian in the sea-side slippers who had no shoes, and past the stout greengrocer Collegian in the corduroy knee-breeches who had no cares, and past the lean clerk Collegian in buttonless black who had no hopes, up his own poor shabby staircase to his own poor shabby room.
-- Quart of double stout a head.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made.
-- Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fel-lows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March.
-- The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout wom-en with rosy children at the doors.
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