harden是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (使) 变硬，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I like the dusk, especially in March, when the night frost begins to harden the day's puddles, and the gas is burning.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin saw that, unless he struggled, not only would he harden into timid morality under the pressure of the village, but be fixed in a routine of prescriptions and bandaging.
-- Martin swore by Jacques Loeb that he would observe test conditions; he would determine forever the value of phage by the contrast between patients treated and untreated and so, perhaps, end all plague forever; he would harden his heart and keep clear his eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since you have taken such a step, you must harden your heart.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How inconstant are your feelings!But a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the unnatural state of patience, and the unwillingness to harden himself against her, in which he found himself, he took no notice, although her soft kindliness to the other man, whom he hated as a noxious insect, made him shiver again with an access of the strange shuddering that came over him repeatedly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gradgrind, it will be observed, being much softened, Mr. Bounderby took particular pains to harden himself at all points.
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：
-- She could no longer harden and grip for her own satisfaction upon him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the master's son, was now less forward than I.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind.
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