hardness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坚硬， 硬度，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：
-- They had to get a hammer before this could be done, though, for the stony material had acquired the hardness of granite.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania might justly complain of the hardness with which fate treated him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard her, unconsciously bending his whole figure down to her as though hoping in this way to soften the hardness of her position for her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would have talked to me too, but I held back, andmoped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity,though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that nojudgment came upon them for their hardness of heart.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face was furrowed by premature wrinkles; there was a certain hardness about it in spite of his bland and insinuating manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The principal tusk has the hardness of steel.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hardness came over Gudrun's face.
-- And now this was Gerald, stiff as a board, curled up as if for sleep, yet with the horrible hardness somehow evident.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six hundred beds of the com-mon measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four dou-ble: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
-- He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble: and lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them.
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：
-- Taking an order, his whole self had changed, glazed over with a sort of hardness and distance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there are degrees of hardness in the hardest metal, and shades of colour in black itself, so, even in the asperity of Mrs Clennam's demeanour towards all the rest of humanity and towards Little Dorrit, there was a fine gradation.
-- There really was a genuineness in the poor fellow, and a contrast between the hardness of his hat and the softness of his heart (albeit, perhaps, of his head, too), that was moving.
-- 'And what was the repentance that was extorted from the hardness of her heart and the blackness of her depravity?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Jo dropped down beside the bed in a passion of penitent tears, telling all that had happened, bitterly condemning her hardness of heart, and sobbing out her gratitude for being spared the heavy pun-ishment which might have come upon her.
-- Now that arrangement was not conducive to calm speech or clear thought on Jo's part, for how could she say hard things to her boy while he watched her with eyes full of love and longing, and lashes still wet with the bitter drop or two her hardness of heart had wrung from him?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the good counsels of my parents, my father's tears and my mother's entreaties, came now fresh into my mind; and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has since, reproached me with the contempt of advice, and the breach of my duty to God and my father.
-- The excessive hardness of the wood, and my having no other way, made me a long while upon this ma-chine, for I worked it effectually by little and little into the form of a shovel or spade; the handle exactly shaped like ours in England, only that the board part having no iron shod upon it at bottom, it would not last me so long; how-ever, it served well enough for the uses which I had occasion to put it to; but never was a shovel, I believe, made after that fashion, or so long in making.
-- I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has been very deceitful!and, in some points, there seems a hardness of heart about him."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor piti-ful rascals, it seemed like I couldn't ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world.
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