arduous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 艰巨的, 艰苦的，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：
-- He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
-- In this delicate and arduous situation, the crafty native had neglected no means of increasing his influence; and one of the happiest of his expedients had been the suc-cess with which he had cultivated the favor of their powerful and dangerous neighbors.
-- The poor fel-low appeared relieved from a state of great embarrassment; for, pursuing the direction of the voice a task that to him was not much less arduous that it would have been to have gone up in the face of a battery he soon discovered the hidden songster.
-- Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
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：
-- But it is unfortunate that I can give no description of the arduous steps by which he reached such mastery over his art as he ever acquired; for if I could show him undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy, I might excite some sympathy for a personality which, I am all too conscious, must appear singularly devoid of charm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I trustthat the labour and hazard of an investigation- of which thesmallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressureof arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, atrise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the 698watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon-combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, whencompleted, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a fewdrops of sweet water on my funereal pyre.
-- As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not helpthinking that the garden in which he had gradually grown to bethe flower he was, was an arduous place to rise in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to be behind-hand in the bustle, Mr Quilp went to work with surprising vigour; hustling and driving the people about, like an evil spirit; setting Mrs Quilp upon all kinds of arduous and impracticable tasks; carrying great weights up and down, with no apparent effort; kicking the boy from the wharf, whenever he could get near him; and inflicting, with his loads, a great many sly bumps and blows on the shoulders of Mr Brass, as he stood upon the door-steps to answer all the inquiries of curious neighbours, which was his department.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, if the ascending path was more arduous and painful to clamber, I had one source of secret consolation and delight.
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