eternal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 永久的, 不朽的; 不停的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- MEN AND BROTHERS'Oh, my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!Oh, my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an iron-handed and a grinding despotism!Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men!I tell you that the hour is come, when we must rally round one another as One united power, and crumble into dust the oppressors that too long have battened upon the plunder of our families, upon the sweat of our brows, upon the labour of our hands, upon the strength of our sinews, upon the God-created glorious rights of Humanity, and upon the holy and eternal privileges of Brotherhood!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might perhaps even follow us to the centre of the earth, there to resolve your eternal doubts."
-- Professor Hardwigg was in haste to leave his prison, or rather as he called it, his hospital; but before he attempted to do so, he caught hold of my hand, led me to the quarterdeck of the schooner, took my arm with his left hand, and pointed inland with his right, over the northern part of the bay, to where rose a high two-peaked mountain--a double cone covered with eternal snow.
-- We had reached the region of eternal snows.
-- The sides of the shaft were getting closer and closer together, we were approaching the regions of eternal night!
-- On all sides were capes and promontories and enormous cliffs, partially worn by the eternal breaking of the waves, through countless ages!And as I gazed from side to side, the mighty rocks faded away like a fleecy film of cloud.
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：
-- With the Eng-lish nothing could save him from being the eternal outsider, not even love.
-- That evening he said to her: 'You do think, don't you, that there is something eternal in marriage?'
-- Then one realizes one's eternal nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked tempting; eight in number, circularly set out on a white plate on a tray covered with a white napkin, flanked by a slice of buttered French roll, and a little compact glass of cool wine and water; but she resisted all persuasions, and sent them down again placing the act to her credit, no doubt, in her Eternal Day-Book.
-- While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal seas.
-- A fine residence had been taken for them on the Corso, and there they took up their abode, in a city where everything seemed to be trying to stand still for ever on the ruins of something else except the water, which, following eternal laws, tumbled and rolled from its glorious multitude of fountains.
-- They received an early visit from Mrs Merdle, who led that extensive department of life in the Eternal City that winter; and the skilful manner in which she and Fanny fenced with one another on the occasion, almost made her quiet sister wink, like the glittering of small-swords.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If 'genius is eternal patience', as Michelangelo affirms, Amy had some claim to the divine attribute, for she perse-vered in spite of all obstacles, failures, and discouragements, firmly believing that in time she should do something wor-thy to be called 'high art'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath O Father! chiefly known to me by Thy rod mortal or immortal, here I die.
-- It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
-- Poor Alabama boy!On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
-- Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.
-- Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave humble and hearty thanks that God had been pleased to discover to me that it was possible I might be more happy in this solitary condition than I should have been in the liberty of society, and in all the pleasures of the world; that He could fully make up to me the deficiencies of my solitary state, and the want of human society, by His presence and the commu-nications of His grace to my soul; supporting, comforting, and encouraging me to depend upon His providence here, and hope for His eternal presence hereafter.
-- Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition would break out upon me on a sudden, and my very heart would die within me, to think of the woods, the mountains, the deserts I was in, and how I was a prisoner, locked up with the eternal bars and bolts of the ocean, in an unin-habited wilderness, without redemption.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her hands began to ache at the wrists and then in the fingers, and towards the last she seemed one mass of dull, complaining muscles, fixed in an eternal position and performing a single mechanical movement which became more and more distasteful, until as last it was absolutely nauseating.
-- Yet, here is the fact of the lighted chamber, the dressy, greedy company, the small, self-interested palaver, the disorganized, aimless, wandering mental action which it represents--the love of light and show and finery which, to one outside, under the serene light of the eternal stars, must seem a strange and shiny thing.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he turned to the fish and said to him: "Dear friend, you have saved my father, and I have not enough words with which to thank you!Allow me to embrace you as a sign of my eternal gratitude."
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