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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather.
-- Another farmer, who lived hard by, and was a particular friend of my master, came on a visit on purpose to inquire into the truth of this story.
-- I fell over head and ears, and, if I had not been a good swimmer, it might have gone very hard with me; for Glumdalclitch in that instant happened to be at the other end of the room, and the queen was in such a fright, that she wanted presence of mind to assist me.
-- And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all man-kind.
-- I ventured to unscrew one of my chairs, which were always fastened to the floor; and having made a hard shift to screw it down again, directly under the slipping-board that I had lately opened, I mounted on the chair, and putting my mouth as near as I could to the hole, I called for help in a loud voice, and in all the languages I understood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hard Times and Reprinted PiecesCHAPTER I.
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set.
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is hard to say which was most excited.
-- My uncle had been hard at work all the afternoon.
-- We were introduced into our chamber, a kind of large room with a hard earthen floor, and lighted by a window, the panes of which were made of a sort of parchment from the intestines of sheep--very far from transparent.
-- I confess that fatigue began to tell severely upon me; but my uncle was as firm and as hard as he had been on the first day.
-- Never had his eyes appeared so fierce, his nose so aquiline, his mouth so hard and firm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- But his silent, brooding insistence that it should be so was hard for Clifford to bear up against.
-- The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it.
-- They were all inwardly hard and separate, and warmth to them was just bad taste.
-- But it's very hard for Sir Clifford, you know, crippled like that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his submission, in his lightness, in his good humour, in his short-lived passion, in his easy contentment with hard bread and hard stones, in his ready sleep, in his fits and starts, altogether a true son of the land that gave him birth.
-- It would be as hard to convince me that if I was to pass into the other world to-morrow, I should not, through the mercy of God, be received there by a daughter, just like Pet, as to persuade me that Pet herself is not a reality at my side.'
-- I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother.
-- I know I might keep it off if I only tried hard enough, and sometimes I do try hard enough, and at other times I don't and won't.
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