constitution是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 构成， 构造， 组成(方式) ， 成分； 体格； 宪法，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller, passing through the street in the execution of some Brazen errand, and beholding one of his Glorious Brotherhood intently gazing on a pony, crossed over to give him that fraternal greeting with which Perpetual Grands are, by the very constitution of their office, bound to cheer and encourage their disciples.
-- The difference was finally adjusted, by the man who had come out of the cabin knocking the other into it head first, and taking the helm into his own hands, without evincing the least discomposure himself, or causing any in his friend, who, being of a tolerably strong constitution and perfectly inured to such trifles, went to sleep as he was, with his heels upwards, and in a couple of minutes or so was snoring comfortably.
-- Yet, sir, that boy will come to a bad end; he'll never die in his bed; he's always falling asleep in sermon-time and to tell you the truth, Mr Marton, I always did the same at his age, and feel quite certain that it was natural to my constitution and I couldn't help it.'
-- With this parting injunction, Mr Swiveller emerged from the house; and feeling that he had by this time taken quite as much to drink as promised to be good for his constitution (purl being a rather strong and heady compound), wisely resolved to betake himself to his lodgings, and to bed at once.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.
-- Her father's comfort was amply secured, Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. Goddard being able to come; and her last pleas-ing duty, before she left the house, was to pay her respects to them as they sat together after dinner; and while her fa-ther was fondly noticing the beauty of her dress, to make the two ladies all the amends in her power, by helping them to large slices of cake and full glasses of wine, for whatev-er unwilling self-denial his care of their constitution might have obliged them to practise during the meal. She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appreciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak.
-- "We all know that, and ye must have a wonderful talented constitution to be able to live so long, mustn't he, neighbours?"
-- My constitution is an iron one."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a certain occasion when the Finches were assembled in force, and when good feeling was being promoted in the usual manner by nobody's agreeing with anybody else, the presiding Finch called the Grove to order, forasmuch as Mr. Drummle had not yet toasted a lady; which, according to the solemn constitution of the society, it was the brute's turn to do that day.
-- If it had been in my constitution to be a lighter grubber, I might ha' got into lighter trouble.
-- Not that Trabb's boy was of a malignant nature, but that he had too much spare vivacity, and that it was in his constitution to want variety and excitement at anybody's expense.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who can care a straw, really, how the old patched-up Constitution is tinkered at any more?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then spoke at large upon the constitution of an English parliament; partly made up of an illustrious body called the House of Peers; persons of the noblest blood, and of the most ancient and ample pat-rimonies.
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
-- His master's observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster.
-- It was probably owing to this fortification of the natural strength of his constitution with so much exposure to the air, and the salt sea, that Mr Sparkler did not pine outwardly; but, whatever the cause, he was so far from having any prospect of moving his mistress by a languishing state of health, that he grew bluffer every day, and that peculiarity in his appearance of seeming rather a swelled boy than a young man, became developed to an extraordinary degree of ruddy puffiness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Donavan says there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His constitution was in no shape to endure.
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