faithful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 守信的， 忠实的， 如实的， 可靠的，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Faithful to her promise, sheeither came to see me, or met me somewhere near, once everyweek, and never empty-handed; but many and bitter were thedisappointments I had, in being refused permission to pay a visitto her at her house.
-- There was great alarm at first,until it was found that she was in a swoon, and that the swoon wasyielding to the usual means of recovery; when the Doctor, who hadlifted her head upon his knee, put her curls aside with his hand, 233and said, looking around'Poor Annie!She's so faithful and tender-hearted!It's the parting from her old playfellow and friend, herfavourite cousin, that has done this.
-- The grave beneath thetree, where both my parents lay- on which I had looked out, whenit was my father's only, with such curious feelings of compassion,and by which I had stood, so desolate, when it was opened toreceive my pretty mother and her babythe grave which Peggotty'sown faithful care had ever since kept neat, and made a garden of, Iwalked near, by the hour.
-- Agnes laughed again at herown penetration, and told me that if I were faithful to her in anyconfidence she thought she should keep a little register of myviolent attachments, with the date, duration, and termination ofeach, like the table of the reigns of the kings and queens, in theHistory of England.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs. Weston's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o'clock, that she was to think of her at four.
-- It was badly done, indeed!You, whom she had known from an infant, whom she had seen grow up from a period when her notice was an honour, to have you now, in thoughtless spirits, and the pride of the moment, laugh at her, humble her and before her niece, too and before others, many of whom (certainly some,) would be entirely guided by your treatment of her. This is not pleasant to you, Emma and it is very far from pleasant to me; but I must, I will, I will tell you truths while I can; 458 Emmasatisfied with proving myself your friend by very faithful counsel, and trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pore feller were faithful and true enough to her in his wish, but his heart would rove, do what he would.
-- This debauch boded ill for that wilful and fascinating mistress whom the faithful man even now felt within him as the embodiment of all that was sweet and bright and hopeless.
-- And when the last sad scene came on, and the body of the gallant and faithful Bess had to be carried out on a shutter by twelve volunteers from among the spectators, nothing could restrain Poorgrass from lending a hand, exclaiming, as he asked Jan to join him, "'Twill be something to tell of at Warren's in future years, Jan, and hand down to our children."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An exact and faithful rendering of the glance might be given in the words: "Look here, my dear; I hope you intend to send this little whipper-snapper about his business."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of Parliament and liberty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- O dear good faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, as solemnly this day as if it had been the rustle of an angel's wing!
-- Mr. Waldengarver smiled at me, as much as to say "a faithful Dependent--I overlook his folly;" and then said aloud, "My view is a little classic and thoughtful for them here; but they will improve, they will improve."
-- He had been ominously heard of, through the play-bills, as a faithful Black, in connection with a little girl of noble birth, and a monkey.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the master said, 'You have been a faithful and good servant, Hans, so your pay shall be handsome.'
-- 27OLD SULTAN shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was A grown very old, and had lost all his teeth.
-- But his wife said, 'Pray let the poor faithful creature live; he has served us well a great many years, and we ought to give him a live-lihood for the rest of his days.'
-- The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in say-ing 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a gay coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feath-ers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so 64 Grimms' Fairy Taleslong and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.
-- She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, contrary to the duty of a faithful subject, is now preparing to make a voyage to the court and empire of Blefuscu, for which he has received only verbal license from his imperial majesty; and, under colour of the said license, does falsely and traitorously in-tend to take the said voyage, and thereby to aid, comfort, and abet the emperor of Blefuscu, so lately an enemy, and in open war with his imperial majesty aforesaid.'
-- And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language.
-- hus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history Tof my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stone Lodge was situated on a moor within a mile or two of a great town called Coketown in the present faithful guide-book.
-- He spoke with the rugged earnestness of his place and character deepened perhaps by a proud consciousness that he was faithful to his class under all their mistrust; but he fully remembered where he was, and did not even raise his voice.
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