hard是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 坚硬的； 结实的； 困难的； 难忍的； 严厉的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- 'But don't be hard upon me!Don't be flowery, Jacob!Pray!'
-- 'There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.'
-- The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and recrossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Lorry was so exceedingly disconcerted by a ques-tion so hard to answer, that he could only look on, at a distance, with much feebler sympathy and humility, while the strong woman, having banished the inn servants under the mysterious penalty of 'letting them know' something not mentioned if they stayed there, staring, recovered her charge by a regular series of gradations, and coaxed her to lay her drooping head upon her shoulder.
-- This being another question hard to answer, Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it.
-- 'Ah!So much the worse!A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.
-- 'You are still hard at work, I see?'
-- It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue.
-- Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flamin-ius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
-- 'The earth is hard and covered with snow; men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been put up here under shelter till the spring-time comes!How thoughtful that is!How kind man is, after all!If it only were not so dark here, and so ter-ribly lonely!Not even a hare!And out in the woods it was so pleasant, when the snow was on the ground, and the hare leaped by; yes even when he jumped over me; but I did not like it then!It is really terribly lonely here!'
-- But the Reindeer begged so hard for little Gerda, and Gerda looked so imploringly with tearful eyes at the Fin-land woman, that she winked, and drew the Reindeer aside into a corner, where they whispered together, while the ani-mal got some fresh ice put on his head.
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 always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.
-- You think it mean of me to count the trees in my forest, while you may Ryabinin a present of thirty thousand; but you get rents from your lands and I don't know what, while I don't and so I prize what's come to me from my ancestors or been won by hard work.... We are aristocrats, and not those who can only exist by favor of the powerful of this world, and who can be bought for twopence halfpenny."
-- The muscles stood up sharply under the network of sinews, covered with this delicate, mobile skin, soft as satin, and they were hard a bone.
-- "I know," she interrupted him, "how hard it is for your truthful nature to lie, and I grieve for you.
-- It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This would be utter folly, and it was hard to admit that Fogg was such a fool.
-- At daybreak the wind began to blow hard again, and the heavens seemed to predict a gale.
-- "If there is any question about England in all this, and we were recognised, I fear it would go hard with us."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dissecting-room itself was impersonal: hard cement floor, walls of hard plaster between wire- glass windows.
-- Under his training she would learn the distinction between vague "ideals" and the hard sureness of science.
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