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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- Meriones his sturdy squire met him while he was still near his tent (for he was going to fetch his spear) and Idomeneus said: 'Meriones, fleet son of Molus, best of comrades, why have you left the field?
-- When he heard this Mars smote his two sturdy thighs with the flat of his hands, and said in anger, 'Do not blame me, you gods that dwell in heaven, if I go to the ships of the Achaeans and avenge the death of my son, even though it end in my being struck by Jove's lightning and lying in blood and dust among the corpses.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the landlord and his two step-sons, sturdy young men of three or four and twenty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know, a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
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：
-- Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
-- repeated the sturdy scout, once more shaking his head in open distrust; 'they are a thievish race, nor do I care by whom they are adopted; you can never make any-thing of them but skulls and vagabonds.
-- 'Doctrine or no doctrine,' said the sturdy woodsman, 'tis the belief of knaves, and the curse of an honest man.
-- Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
-- Without waiting for an assent, or, indeed, for any re-ply, the sturdy hunter moved boldly into a dense thicket of young chestnuts, shoving aside the branches of the ex-uberant shoots which nearly covered the ground, like a man who expected, at each step, to discover some object he had formerly known.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate Andre was captured, and under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here," replied the engineer, showing the sturdy sailor a considerable recess in the side, which would much diminish the thickness.
-- The needles found in the box were used by sturdy if not delicate fingers, and we may be sure that what was sewn was sewn firmly.
-- Pencroft worked with unparalleled ardor, and only a sturdy frame could have borne such fatigue; but his companions were preparing in secret a reward for his labors, and on the 31st of May he was to meet with one of the greatest joys of his life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
-- There were besides, the cottager and his wife, and three young sturdy children, brown as berries.
-- Men who had lounged about all night in smock-frocks and leather leggings, came out in silken vests and hats and plumes, as jugglers or mountebanks; or in gorgeous liveries as soft-spoken servants at gambling booths; or in sturdy yeoman dress as decoys at unlawful games.
-- The old gentleman, the old lady, the pony, and the chaise, came up the street in perfect unanimity, until they arrived within some half a dozen doors of the Notary's house, when the pony, deceived by a brass-plate beneath a tailor's knocker, came to a halt, and maintained by a sturdy silence, that that was the house they wanted.
-- What rebellious thoughts of the cool river, and some shady bathing-place beneath willow trees with branches dipping in the water, kept tempting and urging that sturdy boy, who, with his shirt-collar unbuttoned and flung back as far as it could go, sat fanning his flushed face with a spelling-book, wishing himself a whale, or a tittlebat, or a fly, or anything but a boy at school on that hot, broiling day!Heat!ask that other boy, whose seat being nearest to the door gave him opportunities of gliding out into the garden and driving his companions to madness by dipping his face into the bucket of the well and then rolling on the grass ask him if there were ever such a day as that, when even the bees were diving deep down into the cups of flowers and stopping there, as if they had made up their minds to retire from business and be manufacturers of honey no more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had arrived at the foot of some sturdy dragon-trees, which had pushed aside the rocks with their strong roots, when Ned Land exclaimed:"Ah!sir, a hive!a hive!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm frightened," cried Ursula, in a pathetic voice, watching the group of sturdy short cattle, that stood with their knees planted, and watched with their dark, wicked eyes, through the matted fringe of their hair.
-- He was a sturdy fellow with flattish cheek-bones, rather pale, and with coarse fair moustache.
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