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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
-- I peered hard into the blackness, but could distinguish nothing.
-- I have worked hard at her head and brain 'And now,' said he, standing up after a long gap of silence, during which we had each pursued our own thoughts, 'what do you think?
-- I would see one of the clumsy bovine-creatures who worked the launch treading heavily through the undergrowth, and find myself asking, trying hard to recall, how he differed from some really human yo-kel trudging home from his mechanical labours; or I would meet the Fox-bear woman's vulpine, shifty face, strangely human in its speculative cunning, and even imagine I had met it before in some city byway.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
-- Mowgli looked at Bagheera to see if the Panther was an-gry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones.
-- They do not hit me with their hard paws.
-- She touched his foot, and it was almost as hard as horn.
-- But it was hard work, and Mowgli slashed and tore and grunted for an hour, while the wolves lolled out their tongues, or came forward and tugged as he ordered them.
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：
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
-- Let us hear what you can do in that way; 'twill be a friendly manner of saying good-night, for 'tis time that these ladies should be getting strength for a hard and a long push, in the pride of the morning, afore the Maquas are stirring.'
-- 'The arrows of Uncas, or such tears as women shed!No, no; you are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!But,' glancing his eyes at the Mohicans, 'let us remember we are men without a cross, and let us teach these natives of the forest that white blood can run as freely as red, when the appointed hour is come.'
-- He is hard on his warriors and his eyes are made of stone?'
-- 'He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the de-file, to the shores of Horican.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swal-lows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; an rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watch-ing the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
-- In cold weather he was distin-guished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall.
-- It was connected with the tragical story of the un-fortunate Andre, who had been taken prisoner hard by; and was universally known by the name of Major Andre's tree.
-- For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper's wrath passed across his mind, for it was his Sunday saddle; but this was no time for petty fears; the goblin was hard on his haunches; and (unskilful rider that he was!)
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：
-- I was very young, and perhaps she liked the idea of guiding my virgin steps on the hard road of letters; while for me it was pleasant to have someone I could go to with my small troubles, certain of an attentive ear and reasonable counsel.
-- Then he has no words hard enough for the man who does not recognise its sway; for, a member of society now, he realises accurately enough that against him he is powerless.
-- It was a record of hard work and of little adventure; of experiments in this direction and in that; of the gradual acquisition of the knowledge of books and of men.
-- "I'm frightfully hard up, you know."
-- When it was finished I said to him:"Look here, if you're hard up, let me see your pictures.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a perpendicular wall of very hard granite, which even the waves had not worn away.
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