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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, the single gentleman was bursting out of the office, bent upon laying violent hands on Kit's mother, forcing her into a post-chaise, and carrying her off, when this novel kind of abduction was with some difficulty prevented by the joint efforts of Mr Abel and the Notary, who restrained him by dint of their remonstrances, and persuaded him to sound Kit upon the probability of her being able and willing to undertake such a journey on so short a notice.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also apologized for his failure to send the three thousand rubles due on the first of the month, which he would send by the next mail, explaining it by the difficulty of collecting the rents from the peasants whose bad faith had reached a point where it became necessary to resort to the courts to collect them.
-- On the eve of Easter Sunday, the priest and deacon who, as they afterward related, with difficulty covered the three miles from the church to the aunts' manor, arrived on a sleigh to perform the morning services.
-- After being questioned as to whether they preferred to testify under oath, the same old priest, with difficulty moving his legs, came, and again arranging the gold cross on his silk-covered breast, with the same calmness and confidence, began to administer the oath to the witnesses and the expert.
-- She was not sleeping, but lay, her coat under her head, with wide-open eyes, and with difficulty retaining in her throat the tickling, gurgling phlegm, so as not to cough.
-- Beyond stood a young peasant with a light beard and in bast shoes, pressing his flushed face to the net, evidently with difficulty suppressing his tears.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But the great difficulty is this," interrupted the Psychologist.
-- I had some considerable difficulty in conveying my meaning.
-- The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase.
-- I had the greatest difficulty in keeping my hold.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A new difficulty came into Alice's head.
-- 'You see, I said to myself, "The only difficulty is with the feet: the head is high enough already."
-- Alice thought she saw a way out of the difficulty this time.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after."
-- But the look of them, added to the difficulty of the shore and the high running of the surf, was more than enough to disgust me of that landing-place.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swam more vigorously; but, cramped by my clothes, which stuck to me like a leaden weight, I felt great difficulty in bearing up.
-- "I admit your calculations, Captain," I replied; "I should be wrong to dispute them since daily experience confirms them; but I foresee a real difficulty in the way."
-- I contented myself, however, with putting the frigate hors de combat; she will not have any difficulty in getting repaired at the next port."
-- I reached the platform, on which I could with difficulty support myself against the shock of the waves.
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：
-- Gudrun raised her face with difficulty and held it averted.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again.
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