sturdy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 强健的, 坚实的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena and Mary Grant were led in by Mrs. O'Moore, while the gentlemen were assisted by his sturdy sons to disencumber themselves of their fire-arms.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His healthy appearance, good colour, sound, though discoloured teeth, sturdy figure, preoccupied air during business hours, and jolly good humour during his game at cards in the evening, all bore witness to his success in life, and combined to make existence a bed of roses to his excellency.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder, too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be: struck up a sturdy song that was like a Gale in itself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anna, quietly walking her horse, a sturdy English cob with cropped mane and short tail, her beautiful head with her black hair straying loose under her high hat, her full shoulders, her slender waist in her black riding habit, and all the ease and grace of her deportment, impressed Dolly.
-- The rosy baby with her black eyebrows and hair, her sturdy red little body with tight goose-flesh skin, delighted Darya Alexandrovna in spite of the cross expression with which she stared at the stranger.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, though he had not been able to study or rehearse a part, was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders in the great exhibition of the "human pyramid," executed by the Long Noses of the god Tingou.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With three other Brahmins he formed in Mohalis a Boston colony which stood for sturdy sweetness and decorously shaded light.
-- When their skiis were entangled, they rolled into a drift, and as she clung to him, unafraid and unembarrassed, it seemed to him that in the roughness of tweeds she was but the softer and more wonderful--eyes fearless, cheeks brilliant as she brushed the coating of wet snow from them, flying legs of a slim boy, shoulders adorable in their pretense of sturdy boyishness-- But "I'm a sentimental fool!Leora was right!"
-- The assumption roused something sturdy and defensive in Martin: "Oh, I don't care a hang how socialistic he is--whatever that means.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ithought it affecting to see such a sturdy fellow as Ham was now,trembling in the strength of what he felt for the pretty littlecreature who had won his heart.
-- 'He is nothing but a sturdy beggar.'
-- Hehad been a man of sturdy action all his life, and he knew that in allthings wherein he wanted help he must do his own part faithfully,and help himself.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs,always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
-- There are plenty of sturdy Union patriots who are not averse to picking upmoney selling goods to the Confederacy.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephalleni-ans round him; they had not yet heard the battle-cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fight-ing.
-- On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sturdy little pony, spreading out his legs, in a stiff and ludicrous attitude, got from under the Professor' slegs, and left him standing, with both feet on a separate stone, like the Colossus of Rhodes .
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：
-- Constance, his wife, was a ruddy, country-looking girl with soft brown hair and sturdy body, and slow movements, full of unusual energy.
-- And they tramped off to the forests with sturdy youths bearing guitars, twang-twang!
-- The chair moved slowly ahead, past tufts of sturdy bluebells that stood up like wheat and over grey burdock leaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He derived this impression from something in the turn of the head, and in the figure's action of consideration, as it went on at a sufficiently sturdy walk.
-- Sturdy digging, and shovelling, and carrying away, in carts, barrows, and baskets, went on without intermission, by night and by day; but it was night for the second time when they found the dirty heap of rubbish that had been the foreigner before his head had been shivered to atoms, like so much glass, by the great beam that lay upon him, crushing him.
-- Still, they had not come upon Flintwinch yet; so the sturdy digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission by night and by day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast.
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