Sturdy

(adj.) substantially made or constructed; 'sturdy steel shelves'; 'sturdy canvas'; 'a tough all-weather fabric'; 'some plastics are as tough as metal' .

艾维斯编辑

• They could plough lanes in infantry, but they could not easily smash and scatter it if it was sturdy and well drilled. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not half a mile, was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• She actually trudged away in her grey cloak at a sturdy pace, and turned the corner, and was gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They built sturdy fortresses of the Myc?nean type of architecture; they had a metal industry; they used imported Greek pottery of a very fine type. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I like to see sturdy patriotism, on whatever side it is called forth--and so it's a spirited contest? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Still Meyler was such a sturdy, true, obstinate, English country gentleman, as to pronounce the man half-bred, impudent, and a bore. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Still, they had not come upon Flintwinch yet; so the sturdy digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission by night and by day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He was a sturdy fellow with flattish cheek-bones, rather pale, and with coarse fair moustache. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her figure was stout and sturdy, and her manner aggressively self-possessed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• His mother was of sturdier stuff, passionately patriotic and a strong and managing woman. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was then the heartiest and sturdiest boy in the world, and he is now the heartiest and sturdiest man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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