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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She's failing in health, and she'll want pretty constant attendance up in her room, and we shall have to be much with her, and there'll be nobody about now but ourselves when we're away from her, and altogether it will be more convenient.
-- It was a close, confined room, poorly furnished; and the chimney smoked to boot, or the tin screen at the top of the fireplace was superfluous; but constant pains and care had made it neat, and even, after its kind, comfortable.
-- Little Dorrit was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as the only person between whom and himself there were ties of innocent reliance on one hand, and affectionate protection on the other; ties of compassion, respect, unselfish interest, gratitude, and pity.
-- And so at home he had established himself in business, and had invented and executed, and worked his way on, until, after a dozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 'queer feeling' did not pass away, but she imagined her-self acting the new part of fine lady and so got on pretty well, though the tight dress gave her a side-ache, the train kept getting under her feet, and she was in constant fear lest her earrings should fly off and get lost or broken.
-- While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promis-cuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
-- Franz and Emil are jolly little lads, quite after my own heart, for the mixture of German and American spirit in the produces a constant state of effervescence.
-- Fortunately the story was the CONSTANT TIN SOL-DIER, which is droll, you know, so I could laugh, and I did, though I didn't understand half he read, for I couldn't help it, he was so earnest, I so excited, and the whole thing so comical.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way he can better answer than any one else.
-- Some moments passed, during which the thick vapor came from his mouth in quick and constant puffs, which blew back again into his face.
-- Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees.
-- As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.
-- Because in such a wilderness of running rigging, whose various different relations aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at the deck; and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few minutes cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural fatality, if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor should by some carelessness of the crew be cast adrift and fall all swooping to the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this day, Oliver was seldom left alone; but was placed in almost constant communication with the two boys, who played the old game with the Jew every day: whether for their own improvement or Oliver's, Mr. Fagin best knew.
-- A medical practitioner, who resided on the spot, was in constant attendance upon her; and after first seeing the patient, he had taken Mrs. Maylie aside, and pronounced her disorder to be one of a most alarming nature.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was the prospect of constant society, and good soci- ety,' he added, 'which was my chief inducement to enter the shire.
-- Pardon me for neglecting to prof-it by your advice, which on every other subject shall be my constant guide, though in the case before us I consider my-self more fitted by education and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like yourself.'
-- You know my mother's ideas as to the necessity of constant company for her friends.
-- Chapter 28 very object in the next day's journey was new and in-Eteresting to Elizabeth; and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment; for she had seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health, and the prospect of her north-ern tour was a constant source of delight.
-- I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What I had received by the good instruction of my father was then worn out by an uninterrupted series, for eight years, of seafaring wick-edness, and a constant conversation with none but such as were, like myself, wicked and profane to the last degree.
-- My condition began now to be, though not less miserable as to my way of living, yet much easier to my mind: and my thoughts being directed, by a constant reading the Scrip-ture and praying to God, to things of a higher nature, I had a great deal of comfort within, which till now I knew noth-ing of; also, my health and strength returned, I bestirred myself to furnish myself with everything that I wanted, and make my way of living as regular as I could.
-- At the end of this march I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and a little spring of fresh water, which issued out of the side of the hill by me, ran the other way, that is, due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, every-thing being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden.
-- This time I found much employ-ment, and very suitable also to the time, for I found great occasion for many things which I had no way to furnish myself with but by hard labour and constant application; particularly I tried many ways to make myself a basket, but all the twigs I could get for the purpose proved so brittle that they would do nothing.
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