I wouldn't like you to feel that I was such a strident idiot as I doubtless am appearing now before the public."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
For nearly forty hours, without sleep or rest, almost without food, those brave girls had been at their post. Silas Zane came running into the room. His face was ghastly, even his lips were white and drawn. "Sullivan, in God's name, what can we do? The powder is gone!" he cried in a strident voice. "Gone?" repeated several voices. "Gone?" echoed Sullivan. "Where?"
"God knows.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
Flying well over the tree-tops or along the waterways. the kingfisher makes the woodland echo with his noisy rattle, that breaks the stillness like a watchman's at midnight. It is, perhaps, the most familiar sound heard along the banks of the inland rivers. No love or cradle song does he know. Instead of softening and growing sweet, as the voices of most birds do in the nesting season, the endearments uttered by a pair of mated kingfishers are the most strident, rattly shrieks ever heard by lovers it sounds as if they were perpetually quarrelling, yet they are really particularly devoted.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
The Killer's beat!" roared a strident voice. "M'Adam wins! Five to four M'Adam! I lay agin Owd Bob!" rang out the clear reply. Red Wull was now racing parallel to the fugitives and above them. All four were travelling at a terrific rate; while the two flags were barely twenty yards in front, below the line of flight and almost parallel to it. To effect the turn a change of direction must be macic almost through a right angle,
"He's beat! he's beat!英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
"Everything all ready?" Foster's voice was strident with anxiety.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
He made sure that the horned toad was safe, chose a rock as large as he could lift and heave from him, and threw it at the buzzing, gray coil. He did not wait to see what happened, but picked up another rock, a terrific buzzing sounding stridently from the coil. He threw another and another with all the force of his healthy little muscles. For a four-year- old he aimed well; several of the rocks landed on the coil.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
If I were standing where you are, I'd be even more strident in my approach.美剧 · 《Billions》