adversity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 逆境， 不幸，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Old in adversity and trial, sir,' replied the schoolmaster.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak, his features smudged, grimy, and undiscoverable from the smoke and heat, his smock-frock burnt into holes and dripping with water, the ash stem of his sheep-crook charred six inches shorter, advanced with the humility stern adversity had thrust upon him up to the slight female form in the saddle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With those words, he pressed his hand and released it; and his daughter, laying her face against his, encircled him in the hour of his prosperity with her arms, as she had in the long years of his adversity encircled him with her love and toil and truth; and poured out her full heart in gratitude, hope, joy, blissful ecstasy, and all for him.
-- To see the modest head again bent down over its task, and the nimble fingers busy at their old work though she was not so absorbed in it, but that her compassionate eyes were often raised to his face, and, when they drooped again had tears in them to be so consoled and comforted, and to believe that all the devotion of this great nature was turned to him in his adversity to pour out its inexhaustible wealth of goodness upon him, did not steady Clennam's trembling voice or hand, or strengthen him in his weakness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had the hour of adversity come?
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