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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It Cwas from my own Elizabeth: My dearest Cousin, You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.
-- I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing,seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
-- Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities thatwould make her truly desirable as a wife.
-- In the open space around the depot, the softground had been cut and churned by the constant flow of traffic in and out until it resembled an enormous hog wallow,and here and there vehicles were mired to the hubs in the ruts.
-- To all these arguments, Scarlett smiled but saidnothing, unwilling to commit herself before learning how she would like Atlanta and constant association with her in-laws.
-- But they treated her deferentially, as if she were old and finished,and their constant chatter of dances and beaux made her both envious of their pleasures and resentful that herwidowhood barred her from such activities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!"
-- We drank all the wine, and Mr. Pumblechook pledged himself over and over again to keep Joseph up to the mark (I don't know what mark), and to render me efficient and constant service (I don't know what service).
-- Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping.
-- His constant height is of a piece with his immense abilities.
-- "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will--never would, in hundred years--impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants ap-pointed for that purpose.
-- The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- And this invention would certain-ly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebellion unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefathers; such constant ir- 231reconcilable enemies to science are the common people.
-- But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to my own con-temporaries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What she has done for him demands his constant love and gratitude, not his ill-humour and caprice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was, therefore, in constant communication with, at all events the letters of, Sir Humphry Davy, Captain Franklin, and other great men.
-- The rocks broke and gave way under our feet, and we had to be scrupulously careful in order to avoid dangerous and constant falls.
-- Our constant and successive descents had taken us quite thirty leagues into the interior of the earth, that is to say that there were above us thirty leagues, nearly a hundred miles, of rocks, and oceans, and continents, and towns, to say nothing of living inhabitants.
-- The tremendous vault above our heads, the sky, so to speak, appeared to be composed of a conglomeration of nebulous vapors, in constant motion.
-- The atmosphere is being gradually loaded with vapors, which carry with them the electricity formed by the constant evaporation of the saline waters; the clouds are slowly but sensibly falling towards the sea, and are assuming a dark-olive texture; the electric rays can scarcely pierce through the opaque curtain which has fallen like a drop scene before this wondrous theater, on the stage of which another and terrible drama is soon to be enacted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
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