stronghold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 堡垒， 要塞，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's house-hold should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling.
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：
-- It is the spy seated in the central stronghold of the ego.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time Bathsheba was conscious of having broken into that dignified stronghold at last.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, in my case; all the work, near and afar, that tended to the end, had been accomplished; and in an instant the blow was struck, and the roof of my stronghold dropped upon me.
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