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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All those faithful people who were gazing at the cross and its mutilated occupant must have suffered agony of mind that evening; for they must have felt that all their hopes and al-most all their faith had been shattered at a blow.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lycurgus then spoiled him of the armour which Mars had given him, and bore it in battle thenceforward; but when he grew old and stayed at home, he gave it to his faithful squire Ereuthalion, who in this same armour chal-lenged the foremost men among us.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Thing was evidently faithful enough, for it might have fallen upon me as I slept.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed the proprietor of the condemned an-imal, aloud, without regard to the whispering tones used by the others; 'spare the foal of Miriam!it is the come-ly offspring of a faithful dam, and would willingly injure naught.'
-- After a last look at Uncas, Cora turne,d and with a quivering lip, addressed herself to Heyward: 'I have heard of your boasted skill in the water, too, Dun-can,' she said; 'follow, then, the wise example set you by these simple and faithful beings.'
-- 'I know that the king of France is well served,' returned the unmoved Scotsman, as soon as Duncan ended his translation; 'but my own royal master has as many and as faithful troops.'
-- Perceiving that, in his turn, he was unheeded, the faithful David followed the distracted sister, raising his voice again in sacred song, and sweeping the air to the measure, with his long arm, in diligent accompaniment.
-- 'At least he has been faithful to his trust,' said Heyward.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The faithful creature, having broken his chain, had followed his master.
-- The faithful animal had voluntarily leaped out to help his master.
-- They had no doubt that Neb had found his master, and that he had sent them the faithful dog.
-- Could he not rely on the sagacity of the faithful animal?
-- He recounted all the events with which Cyrus was unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon, the landing on this unknown land, which appeared a desert (whatever it was, whether island or continent), the discovery of the Chimneys, the search for him, not forgetting of course Neb's devotion, the intelligence exhibited by the faithful Top, as well as many other matters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I haven't got much sense, I know, but if he could be brought to believe that I'd been a faithful servant to him, doing the best I could, and never meaning harm, perhaps he mightn't 'Here Kit faltered so long that the child entreated him to speak out, and quickly, for it was very late, and time to shut the window.
-- But although she would gladly have given him her hand and thanked him for what he had said at their last meeting, it was always a relief to find, when they came nearer to each other, that the person who approached was not he, but a stranger; for even if she had not dreaded the effect which the sight of him might have wrought upon her fellow-traveller, she felt that to bid farewell to anybody now, and most of all to him who had been so faithful and so true, was more than she could bear.
-- Who would have thought it!George, my faithful feller, how are you?'
-- You were a very faithful servant to your old employers, as I understand, and should this gentleman recover them, as it is his purpose to attempt doing by every means in his power, I have no doubt that you, being in his service, would meet with your reward.
-- And there, too, is the ever faithful Barbara's mother, still holding the baby as if she had never put it down since that sad day when they little hoped to have such joy as this there she is, Heaven bless her, crying her eyes out, and sobbing as never woman sobbed before; and there is little Barbara poor little Barbara, so much thinner and so much paler, and yet so very pretty trembling like a leaf and supporting herself against the wall; and there is Mrs Garland, neater and nicer than ever, fainting away stone dead with nobody to help her; and there is Mr Abel, violently blowing his nose, and wanting to embrace everybody; and there is the single gentleman hovering round them all, and constant to nothing for an instant; and there is that good, dear, thoughtful little Jacob, sitting all alone by himself on the bottom stair, with his hands on his knees like an old man, roaring fearfully without giving any trouble to anybody; and each and all of them are for the time clean out of their wits, and do jointly and severally commit all manner of follies.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hence there were still faithful men on board.
-- Third point, there are faithful hands.
-- The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen being all that is left faithful of the ship's company with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island.
-- Then I skirted among the woods until I had regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party.
-- But this was, of course, not known till after by the faithful party.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, the 5th of November, at twelve, the delay would (morally speaking) expire; after that time, Commander Farragut, faithful to his promise, was to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the northern regions of the Pacific.
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