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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 17th they set out in the usual line of march, a line which it was hard work for Robert to keep, his ardor constantly compelled him to get ahead of the MADRINA, to the great despair of his mule.
-- It was covered with snow, and scarcely distinguishable from the surrounding rocks; but Wilson and Mulrady succeeded in digging it out and clearing the opening after half an hour's hard work, to the great joy of the whole party, who eagerly took possession of it.
-- It was hard work, however, to get the animal to consent to walk quietly.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Since the tragedy, Mr. Holmes, there have come to my ears several incidents which are hard to reconcile with the settled order of Nature.'
-- Then my gentleman threw up the trap, and he cried that I should drive right away to Waterloo Station as hard as I could go.
-- On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted sol-dier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
-- The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
-- 'Is it hard to know?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing.
-- Fancy if it had been a hard frost!I never thought it would be so cold in the old country.
-- When he was wide awake and realized the truth, he became very silent and argued no more so they say; but after a bit he said: 'It comes very hard on one so suddenly' and then he was silent again and said nothing.
-- The whole flock went with me to the station, which was about a mile from the village, and every now and then one of them would stop to throw his arms round me, and all the little girls had tears in their voices, though they tried hard not to cry.
-- Well, I shall be spared such a hard be-ginning, and shall start with a little capital.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.
-- You are my wife, but you would find it hard to understand them.
-- You are hard as the axe which a shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his liking.
-- You two should be of all men foremost when there is hard fighting to be done, for you are ever foremost to accept my invitation when we councillors of the Achaeans are hold-ing feast.
-- Then, when you have put heart into all our companies, we will stand firm here and fight the Danaans however hard they press us, for there is nothing else to be done.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after the stranger had gone to bed, which he did about half-past nine, Mr. Hall went very aggressively into the parlour and looked very hard at his wife's furniture, just to show that the stranger wasn't master there, and scrutinised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of mathematical computations the stranger had left.
-- These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him.
-- he said, and their eyes followed the direction of his gloved finger and saw a bottle of sarsaparilla hard by the cellar door.
-- In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on his table.
-- A box of very thin common glass would be hard to see in a bad light, because it would absorb hardly any light and refract and reflect very little.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tem-pered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to 'shut up' I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship.
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