hard-working是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 勤劳的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, ma'am,' replied the young woman, 'he ran away, near a month ago, from his parents, who are hard-working and respectable people; and went and joined a set of thieves and bad characters; and almost broke his mother's heart.'
-- Mr. Chitling wound up his observations by stating that he had not touched a drop of anything for forty-two moral long hard-working days; and that he 'wished he might be busted if he warn't as dry as a lime-basket.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have never believed it possible thatany natural or improved ability can claim immunity from thecompanionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, andhope to gain its end.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achae-ans, who still held on; and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.
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 never read but in one, and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need much schooling; though I may boast that of forty long and hard-working years.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She ran to him and held him close, crying, with repentant tears, 'Oh, John, my dear, kind, hard-working boy.
-- She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.
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