perseverance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坚持，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll begin your lec-tures about perseverance and strength of will, and all that.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his na-ture; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack脙聞yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perseverance and strength of character will enable usto bear much worse things.'
-- It was one of the irons I began to heatimmediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at,with a perseverance I may honestly admire.
-- I will onlyadd, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this timeof my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which thenbegan to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strongpart of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, onlooking back, I find the source of my success.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!no; I was pleased with my own perseverance in ask-ing questions; and amused to think how little information I obtained.'
-- Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particu-larly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.
-- 362 EmmaChapter XVIIWhen the ladies returned to the drawing-room after din-ner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties; with so much perseverance in judg-ing and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself.
-- I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most up-right female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement. Had she refused, I should have gone mad. But you will be ready to say, what was your hope in doing this? What did you look forward to? To any thing, every thing to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sick-ness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am practi-cally industrious painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common path-ways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
-- My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean ap-peared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,' he interrupted, wincing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not in reason to be expected that he should; if he could have lightly forgotten it, he could never have conceived it, or had the patience and perseverance to work it out.
-- Flora accordingly led the way across the road to the pie-shop in question: Mr F.'s Aunt stalking across in the rear, and putting herself in the way of being run over, with a perseverance worthy of a better cause.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Eliza-beth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her re-peated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mis-taken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
-- With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a con-nection between the houses, he unfolded the matter to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: 'Good Lord!Sir William, how can you tell such a story?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said much of his earnest desire of their living in the most sociable terms with his family, and pressed them so cordially to dine at Barton Park every day till they were better settled at home, that, though his entreaties were carried to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offence.
-- But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert's offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with, procured her in time the haughty notice which overcame her by its graciousness, and led soon afterwards, by rapid degrees, to the highest state of affection and influence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had risen by perseverance and industry, through long years of service, from the position of barkeeper in a commonplace saloon to his present altitude.
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