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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find it wery hard to hold that young man off of your inside.
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
-- Mr. Wopsle had greatly alarmed me more than once, by his blowing and hard breathing; but I knew the sounds by this time, and could dissociate them from the object of pursuit.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' thought the young man, 'it is no hard matter to keep that advice.'
-- Seven long years he had worked hard for his master.
-- However, I will not be hard upon you, as you are in trouble.'
-- 'Oh!I worked hard for that seven long years.'
-- 'Well,' said the old dame, 'that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much for their clothing; but, for the most part, their frames were solid enough; their constitutions had weathered the storms of life; their cold, hard faces were worn like coins that have been withdrawn from circulation, but there were greedy teeth behind the withered lips.
-- Besides, Goriot had his uses, every one vented his spleen or sharpened his wit on him; he was pelted with jokes and belabored with hard words.
-- I saw them go while I was sweeping the stairs; Father Goriot knocked up against me, and his parcel was as hard as iron.
-- The student stared hard at Vautrin.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
-- Alas!I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all?
-- I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
-- I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate 58 Frankensteinbody.
-- Our misfortune is doubly hard to us; we have not only lost that lovely darling boy, but this poor girl, whom I sincerely love, is to be torn away by even a worse fate.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces anddeep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-coloredbreeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.
-- "Don't be too hard on her, Stuart.
-- "I'm not being hard on her.
-- "And Cade never had any hard feelings.
-- Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officerswere hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
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