struggle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 斗争, 奋斗, 努力,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 received the impression of a life which was a bitter struggle against every sort of difficulty; but I realised that much which would have seemed horrible to most people did not in the least affect him.
-- I couldn't very well struggle with him.
-- I think I should have shown a strong vocation in boyhood, crushed by the will of his father or sacrificed to the necessity of earning a living; I should have pictured him impatient of the restraints of life; and in the struggle between his passion for art and the duties of his station I could have aroused sympathy for him.
-- I suppose no artist achieves completely the realisation of the dream that obsesses him, and Strickland, harassed incessantly by his struggle with technique, managed, perhaps, less than others to express the vision that he saw with his mind's eye; but in Tahiti the circumstances were favourable to him; he found in his surroundings the accidents necessary for his inspiration to become effective, and his later pictures give at least a suggestion of what he sought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were determined to struggle to the last minute, to do anything to retard their fall.
-- He tossed about on his sandy couch, scarcely giving a thought to the struggle of the elements.
-- He attempted to struggle against the billows by swimming vigorously.
-- The hunters had scarcely entered the bushes when they saw Top engaged in a struggle with an animal which he was holding by the ear.
-- Meanwhile, the capybara did not struggle against the dog.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Swiveller appeared to think that they implied some mental struggle consequent upon the powerful effect of his address, for he poked his friend with his cane and whispered his conviction that he had administered 'a clincher,' and that he expected a commission on the profits.
-- Another lady recounted her own personal struggle and final triumph, in the course whereof she had found it necessary to call in her mother and two aunts, and to weep incessantly night and day for six weeks.
-- His fair enemies tossed their heads slightly as they sought their respective bonnets and shawls, but left all verbal contention to Mrs Jiniwin, who finding herself in the position of champion, made a faint struggle to sustain the character.
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
-- Then, she was distracted with a horrible fear that he might be committing it at that moment; with a dread of hearing shrieks and cries piercing the silence of the night; with fearful thoughts of what he might be tempted and led on to do, if he were detected in the act, and had but a woman to struggle with.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff at first struggled, but the struggle was very hard, for whatever he did, following the faith that was in him, was considered wrong by others, and, contrariwise, whatever he considered wrong was approved of by his relatives.
-- And during the two days preceding Easter an incessant struggle was going on within Nekhludoff of which he was quite unconscious.
-- He spoke of heredity, of innate criminality, of Lombroso, of Charcot, of evolution, of the struggle for existence, of hypnotism, of hypnotic suggestion, and of decadence.
-- His fear of the disgrace that would fall upon him if everybody in the court-room were to find out his conduct toward her stifled the struggle that was going on within him.
-- He stood over her, silently looking at her back bent over the table, and now and then shaking from the sobs she tried to suppress, and his soul was convulsed by a struggle between good and evil, between offended pride and pity for her sufferings.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness.
-- I did so, and, as I fumbled with my pocket, a struggle began in the darkness about my knees, perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I might have fallen without a struggle for my life had not a sudden disquietude seized upon me and made me turn my head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Abraham Lincoln, not being able to struggle with such velocity, had moderated its pace, and sailed at half speed.
-- The time for the struggle had arrived.
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