firmness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坚固， 坚定， 稳固，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：
-- He was now a very energetic man indeed, with great firmness of purpose, strength of resolu-tion, and vigour of action.
-- Her father answered, with a cheerful firmness of con-viction he could scarcely have assumed, 'Quite sure, my darling!More than that,' he added, as he tenderly kissed her: 'my future is far brighter, Lucie, seen through your marriage, than it could have been nay, than it ever was without it.'
-- I do not think,' said Doctor Manette with the firmness of self-conviction, 'that anything but the one train of association would renew it.
-- 'I would not keep it,' said Mr. Lorry, shaking his head; for he gained in firmness as he saw the Doctor disquieted.
-- Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities; the troubled time would have heaved her up, un-der any circumstances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his walk, in his gestures, in the sound of his voice there was a determination and firmness such as his wife had never seen in him.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch smiled coldly, with his lips alone, meaning to signify to her and himself the firmness of his conviction; but this warm defense, though it could not shake him, reopened his wound.
-- Left alone, Alexey Alexandrovitch recognized that he had not the strength to keep up the line of firmness and composure any longer.
-- "I understand," said Darya Alexandrovna, involuntarily admiring the sincerity and firmness with which he said this.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He admired Angus's firmness of purpose and stability of habit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might be firm, andmust be; but only in bearing their firmness, and firmly believingthere was no other firmness upon earth.
-- 'Clara,' he continued, looking at my mother, 'you surprise me!Youastound me!Yes, I had a satisfaction in the thought of marrying aninexperienced and artless person, and forming her character, andinfusing into it some amount of that firmness and decision ofwhich it stood in need.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was an elasticity in her firmness which removed it from obstinacy, as there was a na脙炉vet脙漏 in her cheapening which saved it from meanness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence.
-- Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.
-- I strug-gled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud.
-- I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was struck with a profound veneration at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover the most consummate virtue, the greatest intrepidity and firmness of mind, the truest love of his country, and gen-eral benevolence for mankind, in every lineament of his countenance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had that force of face, and that concentrated air of collecting her firmness or obstinacy, which represented in her case what would have been gesture and action in another, as she replied with her deliberate strength of speech:'No, sir, I do not forget.
-- This turning of his intelligence and of his whole attempt and design against himself, did even more than his mother's fixedness and firmness to convince him that his efforts with her were idle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Demi inherited a trifle of his sire's firmness of charac-ter, we won't call it obstinacy, and when he made up his little to have or to do anything, all the king's horses and all the king's men could not change that pertinacious little mind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was still more astonished to find that this firmness lasted; and that, under all the care and watching which ensued, Mrs. Maylie was every ready and collected: performing all the duties which had devolved upon her, steadily, and, to all external appearances, even cheerfully.
-- In a word,' said the young lady, turning away, as her temporary firmness forsook her, 'there is a stain upon my name, which the world visits on innocent heads.
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