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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was too sorrowful to discussthe question, which would possibly have been beyond me underany circumstances; and Mr. Omer took me back into the parlour,breathing with some difficulty on the way.
-- 'Under the impression,' said Mr. Micawber, 'that yourperegrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive,and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcanaof the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road- in short,'said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, 'that you mightlose yourself- I shall be happy to call this evening, and instal you inthe knowledge of the nearest way.'
-- But, sitting at work, not far off from Doctor Strong, was a verypretty young lady- whom he called Annie, and who was hisdaughter, I supposed- who got me out of my difficulty by kneelingdown to put Doctor Strong's shoes on, and button his gaiters,which she did with great cheerfulness and quickness.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma assured her there would be no difficulty in the answer, and advised its being written directly, which was agreed to, in the hope of her assistance; and though Emma continued to protest against any assistance being wanted, it was in fact given in the formation of every sentence.
-- A very proper compliment! and then follows the ap-plication, which I think, my dear Harriet, you cannot find much difficulty in comprehending.
-- Emma only nodded, and smiled. After a little thinking, and a very tender sigh, he added, 'Ah!it is no difficulty to see who you take after!Yourdear mother was so clever at all those things!If I had but her memory!But I can remember nothing; not even that par-ticular riddle which you have heard me mention; I can only recollect the first stanza; and there are several.
-- How they were all to be conveyed, he would have made a difficulty if he could, but as his son and daughter's car-riage and horses were actually at Hartfield, he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head; it hardly amounted to a doubt; nor did it occupy Emma long to con-vince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also.
-- The difficulty was great of driving his strange insensibility towards Harriet, from her mind, while he not only sat at her elbow, but was continu-ally obtruding his happy countenance on her notice, and solicitously addressing her upon every occasion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was learning the sheep-keeping business, so as to follow on at the flock when the other should die, but had got no further than the rudiments as yet still finding an insuperable difficulty in distinguishing between doing a thing well enough and doing it too well.
-- inquired the shepherd, who found some difficulty in keeping the conversation in the desired channel.
-- An indescribable succession of dull blows, perplexing in their regularity, sent their sound with difficulty through the fluffy atmosphere.
-- How to decently get away from him that was her difficulty now.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I possessed the capac-ity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.
-- 'You may easily believe,' said he, 'how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred-ulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in *The Vicar of Wakefield*: 'I have ten thousand florins ayear without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.'
-- We stayed several hours with Justine, and it was with great difficulty that Elizabeth could tear herself away.
-- Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears.
-- 117Chapter 11 t is with considerable difficulty that I remember the 'Ioriginal era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only difficulty was that by being just and truthful and tenderand unselfish, one missed most of the joys of life, and certainly many beaux.
-- Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even theleast attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
-- But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty shestifled a giggle.
-- It came off with difficulty and for a brief instant wasclutched tightly in the small palm.
-- Hot words bubbled to her lips and it was with difficulty that she checked them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then.
-- Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me.
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