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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought it must be the case that he loved her; she felt that she too might learn to love him, if she could be sure of the firmness of his attachment to herself; but he was very young, and it was a difficult question to decide.
-- In spite of her sorrowful expression, she gave the idea of possessing con-siderable firmness and decision.
-- The same de-cision and firmness was to be observed in her face as in her mother's, but her strength seemed to be more vigorous than that of Nina Alexandrovna.
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：
-- At length, the blanket was slowly raised, and the scout stood in the aperture with a countenance whose firmness evidently began to give way before a mys-tery that seemed to threaten some danger, against which all his cunning and experience might prove of no avail.
-- shouted Magua, hurling his tomahawk with violence at the unresisting speaker, and gnashing his teeth with a rage that could no longer be bridled at this sudden exhibition of firmness in the one he believed the weakest of the party.
-- Astonishment soon changed to admiration, and they passed on to other and less courageous victims, openly ex-pressing their satisfaction at the firmness with which the white warrior sang his death song.
-- On reaching the entrance, the younger men in advance made way for their seniors; and the whole proceeded along the low, dark gallery, with the firmness of warriors ready to devote themselves to the public good, though, at the same time, secretly doubting the nature of the power with which they were about to contend.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It needed a good deal of firmness and still more patience to induce him to come, but he was really too ill to offer any effective resistance to Stroeve's entreaties and to my determination.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shivering with the cold and damp, ill in body, and sick to death at heart, the child needed her utmost firmness and resolution even to creep along.
-- 'Because I must have that dream I told you of, no more,' said the child, with a momentary firmness that lost itself in tears; 'and we must live among poor people, or it will come again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was loved by his fellow-prisoners for his cheerfulness, liberality and firmness in dealing with the authorities.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Elizabeth had now recollected herself, and making a strong effort for it, was able to assure with tolerable firmness that the prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she wished her all imaginable happiness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was stronger alone, and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
-- HE, meanwhile, whatever he might feel, acted with all the firmness of a collected mind, made every necessary arrangement with the utmost despatch, and calculated with exactness the time in which she might look for his return.
-- She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by Willoughby, containing some of their favourite duets, and bearing on its outward leaf her own name in his hand-writing. That would not do. She shook her head, put the music aside, and after running over the keys for a minute, complained of feebleness in her fingers, and closed the instrument again; declaring however with firmness as she did so, that she should in future practice much.
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