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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Thanks, your honor, but I have good stout arms."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's a Kneller, I'll swear, that lady in the blue silk over yonder, and the stout gentleman with the wig ought to be a Reyn-olds.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They included a couple of young merchants, a man in a great-coat, a medical student, a little Pole, a small fat man who laughed continuously, and an enormously tall stout one who apparently put great faith in the strength of his fists.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone rides old men, stout ladies, little children and the young folks do a deal of flirting here, I say a pair exchange rose buds, for it's the thing to wear one in the button-hole, and I thought it rather a nice little idea.
-- said Jo to herself, when she at length discov-ered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was bur-dened with the name of Bhaer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
-- The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
-- For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him, poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can."
-- I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.
-- He peremptorily denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Though I must say,' continued the undertaker, resuming the current of observations which the beadle had interrupted: 'though I must say, Mr. Bumble, that I have to contend against one very great disadvantage: which is, that all the stout people go off the quickest.
-- They were not exactly pretty, perhaps; but they had a great deal of colour in their faces, and looked quite stout and hearty.
-- It was a small paved yard into which they turned; and here they encountered a stout man with a bunch of whiskers on his face, and a bunch of keys in his hand.
-- At this moment, there walked into the room: supporting himself by a thick stick: a stout old gentleman, rather lame in one leg, who was dressed in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, nankeen breeches and gaiters, and a broad-brimmed white hat, with the sides turned up with green.
-- 'Unless you could pitch over a file and twenty yards of good stout rope, you might as well be walking fifty mile off, or not walking at all, for all the good it would do me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.
-- Two maids and two men, indeed! as I talked of t'other day. No, no, they must get a stout girl of all works. Betty's sister would never do for them NOW."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went on leisurely writing, until after a time a short, stout gentleman came in from the street.
-- Hurstwood looked the part, for, besides being slightly under forty, he had a good, stout constitution, an active manner, and a solid, substantial air, which was composed in part of his fine clothes, his clean linen, his jewels, and, above all, his own sense of his importance.
-- Look at him any time within the half hour before the curtain was up, he was a member of an eminent group--a rounded company of five or more whose stout figures, large white bosoms, and shining pins bespoke the character of their success.
-- People, looking at him, imagined instantly that a man of his age, stout and well dressed, must be well off.
-- Then she interposed a stout arm, and the line halted, with six men on the steps.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquaint-ed with which was the north side we found a square window- hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as he struggled and squirmed like an eel to escape from him, the Green Fisherman took a stout cord and tied him hand and foot, and threw him into the bottom of the tub with the others.
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