difficulty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 困难, 困境, 难题,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The truth is, my dear Charles,' 335Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and lowered his voice, 'you can have no conception of the difficulty with which our business is transacted, and of the peril in which our books and papers over yonder are involved.
-- Mindful of the secret, Darnay with great difficulty checked himself, and said: 'You may not understand the gentleman.'
-- His difficulty at the guard-house in this small place had been such, that he felt his journey to have come to a crisis.
-- I had no difficulty in deducing from your unreserved conversation, and the rumour openly going about among your admirers, the nature of your call-ing.
-- 'These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and char-coal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself.
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- "Oh, yes, yes; make haste, please," answered Levin, with difficulty restraining the smile of rapture which would overspread his face.
-- But he had no difficulty in finding what was good and attractive in Vronsky.
-- Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriage, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw with surprise that her lips were quivering, and she was with difficulty restraining her tears.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But, Mr. Fogg," pursued Sir Francis, "you run the risk of having some difficulty about this worthy fellow's adventure at the pagoda."
-- He had, indeed, risked his life in the adventure at Pillaji, and, if he should be caught afterwards by the Indians, he would with difficulty escape their vengeance.
-- The difficulty was, how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World.
-- The police had great difficulty in keeping back the crowd, and as the hour when Phileas Fogg was due approached, the excitement rose to its highest pitch.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In college, they had gone to dances together, though as a dancer Martin was more spirited than accurate, and his partners sometimes had difficulty in deciding just what he was trying to dance.
-- If he has a dirty old office, with hand-me-down chairs and a lot of second- hand magazines, then the patient isn't going to have confidence in him; he is going to resist the treatment--and the doctor is going to have difficulty in putting over and collecting an adequate fee.
-- The difficulty in defining its quality is that no one has determined whether it is a very large village or a very small city.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nastasya, coming into his room at ten o'clock the next morning, had difficulty in rousing him.
-- 'You can't help getting pale 芒聙娄 if you've nothing to eat,' he added, with difficulty articu- lating the words.
-- He kept trying to say something to her; he began moving his tongue with difficulty and articulating indistinctly, but Katerina Ivanovna, understanding that he wanted to ask her forgiveness, called peremptorily to him: 'Be silent!No need!I know what you want to say!'
-- He came in Rlooking as though he had the utmost difficulty not to burst out laughing again.
-- 'They are pernicious, positively perni- cious, and yet I can't give them up!I cough, I begin to have tickling in my throat and a difficulty in breathing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felt the difficulty of resuming the subject, but had not got to thebottom of it yet, and must get to the bottom somehow.
-- As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty inour way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had nofuture.
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