constant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 经常的; 不变的; 坚定的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a constant visitor at their house.
-- Besides this, the care of her large family was a constant worry to her: first, the nursing of her young baby did not go well, then the nurse had gone away, now one of the children had fallen ill. "Well, how are all of you?"
-- He was more lovingly respectful to her than ever, and the constant care that she should not feel the awkwardness of her position never deserted him for a single instant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout's visage darkened with the skies, and for two days the poor fellow experienced constant fright.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wickett often worked all night; he was to be seen in shirt- sleeves, his sulky red hair rumpled, sitting with a stop-watch before a constant temperature bath for hours.
-- Constant criticism was good, if only it was not spiteful, jealous, petty-- No, even then it might be good!Some men had to be what easy-going workers called "spiteful."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 59This was my only and my constant comfort.
-- In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of there-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction!Ihad long tasks every day to do with Mr. Mell; but I did them, therebeing no Mr. and Miss Murdstone here, and got through themwithout disgrace.
-- I believe our boys were, generally, as ignorant a set as anyschoolboys in existence; they were too much troubled and knockedabout to learn, they could no more do that to advantage than anyone can do anything to advantage in a life of constant misfortune,torment, and worry.
-- 'Take me 'long with you, Dan'l, take me 'long with youand Em'ly!I'll be your servant, constant and trew.
-- Working at his chambers in the Temple, with a busy aspect, andhis hair (where he is not bald) made more rebellious than ever bythe constant friction of his lawyer's wig, I come, in a later time,upon my dear old Traddles.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Highbury, that airy, cheerful, happy-looking Highbury, would be his constant attraction.
-- Mrs. Churchill was unwell far too unwell to do without 312 Emmahim; she had been in a very suffering state (so said her hus-band) when writing to her nephew two days before, though from her usual unwillingness to give pain, and constant habit of never thinking of herself, she had not mentioned it; but now she was too ill to trifle, and must entreat him to set off for Enscombe without delay.
-- This will be complete enjoyment; and I do not know, Mrs. Elton, whether the uncertainty of our meetings, the sort of constant expectation there will be of his coming in to-day or to-morrow, and at any hour, may not be more friendly to happiness than having him actually in the house.
-- She must not appear to think it a misfortune. With all the spirits she could command, she prepared him first for something strange, and then, in a few words, said, that if his consent and approbation could be obtained which, she trusted, would be attended with no difficulty, since it was a plan to promote the happiness of all she and Mr. Knightley meant to marry; by which means Hartfield would receive the constant addition of that person's company whom she knew he loved, next to his daughters and Mrs. Weston, best in the world.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form that of absolute faith is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
-- Men are such constant fools!The rest may try to get over their passion with more or less success.
-- He was uneasy on Boldwood's account, for he saw anew that this constant passion of the farmer made him not the man he once had been.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
-- Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
-- 'You may easily believe,' said he, 'how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred-ulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in *The Vicar of Wakefield*: 'I have ten thousand florins ayear without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.'
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