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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
-- Then she stepped into her flaming chariot, and grasped the spear so stout and sturdy and strong with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
-- Many a good stout blade hilted and scabbarded with iron, fell from hand or shoulder as they fought, and the earth ran red with blood.
-- He grasped two redoubtable spears that suited his hands, but he did not take the spear of noble Achilles, so stout and strong, for none other of the Achaeans could wield it, though Achilles could do so easily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.
-- But the stout bolts I had screwed up some days before stopped him.
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：
-- 'I should be sorry to think they had, though this is a spot that stout courage might hold for a smart scrimmage.
-- This is not such a supper as a major of the Royal Americans has a right to expect, but I've known stout de-tachments of the corps glad to eat their venison raw, and without a relish, too*.
-- Woe betide the wretch who is born to behold this plain, with the judgment hanging about his soul!Ha as I am a man of white blood, yonder lies a red-skin, without the hair of his head where nature rooted it!Look to him, Delaware; it may be one of your missing people; and he should have burial like a stout warrior.
-- Then, renewing his cautions and ad-vice, he concluded by saying, with a solemnity and warmth of feeling, with which Duncan was deeply touched: 'And, now, God bless you!You have shown a spirit that I like; for it is the gift of youth, more especially one of warm blood and a stout heart.
-- God bless you!if the Hurons master your scalp, rely on the promise of one who has two stout warriors to back him.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think perhaps I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character.
-- He was a Jew named Abraham, a blond, rather stout young man, shy and very unassuming; but he had remarkable gifts.
-- The doctor was a stout man in shabby clothes, and when he took off his hat I noticed that he was very bald.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived at the forest, Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert rubbed smooth on a rock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moved by these considerations, a stout lady opened the proceedings by inquiring, with an air of great concern and sympathy, how Mr Quilp was; whereunto Mr Quilp's wife's mother replied sharply, 'Oh!He was well enough nothing much was every the matter with him and ill weeds were sure to thrive.'
-- 'No woman need have, if she was true to herself,' rejoined the stout lady.
-- Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed.
-- However, he did nothing of the kind, but instead thereof assisted a stout servant girl in turning the contents of the cauldron into a large tureen; a proceeding which the dogs, proof against various hot splashes which fell upon their noses, watched with terrible eagerness.
-- When they rose up from the ground, and took the shady track which led them through the wood, she bounded on before, printing her tiny footsteps in the moss, which rose elastic from so light a pressure and gave it back as mirrors throw off breath; and thus she lured the old man on, with many a backward look and merry beck, now pointing stealthily to some lone bird as it perched and twittered on a branch that strayed across their path, now stopping to listen to the songs that broke the happy silence, or watch the sun as it trembled through the leaves, and stealing in among the ivied trunks of stout old trees, opened long paths of light.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After washing his hands with perfumed soap, carefully brushing his trimmed nails and washing his face and stout neck in a marble basin, he walked into a third room, where a shower-bath was ready.
-- One was a tall, stout merchant, a good-natured man, who had evidently partaken of some liquor and was in very high spirits; the other was a clerk of Jewish extraction.
-- He was a tall, stout man, with long, grayish side-whiskers.
-- The new faces of witnesses were now seen in the court-room, and Nekhludoff noticed Maslova constantly turning her head in the direction of a smartly attired, stout woman in silk and plush, with an elegant reticule hanging on her half-bare arm.
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