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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From November to March the sky is always cloudless, and a constant south wind prevails, as the coast is sheltered by the mountain range of the Andes.
-- The Captain pointed out to Mary the different currents on the ship's chart, and explained to her their constant direction.
-- It was a constant repetition of up and down hill, and many a jolt besides, all of which were scarcely pleasant.
-- In short, the most trifling acts of the Maories are directed and modified by this singular custom, the deity is brought into constant contact with their daily life.
-- Is there not a constant repetition going on of the story of the fable where the storm, blow as it will, cannot tear the cloak from the shoulders of the traveler, while the first warm rays of sunshine make him throw it off immediately?
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：
-- His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
-- 'If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
-- Another item had been added to that constant and apparently pur-poseless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.
-- And a new sound min-gled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low, constant murmur of the sea.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No; Constant was away then, taking a letter to the Em-press Josephine.
-- Thank you, my friend;' and then and there he sat down and wrote that letter to Josephine, with which Constant was sent off next day.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were painful at first, but their constant resurgence at last altogether upset my balance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These things being added to my desire of having a good quantity for store, and to secure a constant supply, I resolved not to taste any of this crop but to preserve it all for seed against the next season; and in the meantime to em-ploy all my study and hours of working to accomplish this great work of providing myself with corn and bread.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
-- The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
-- CHAPTER 11Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
-- She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constant drag to something better was not to be denied.
-- Constant comparison between his old state and his new showed a balance for the worse, which produced a constant state of gloom or, at least, depression.
-- It was this constant urging, coupled with irascibility and energy, for three long hours.
-- Life had always seemed a precious thing, but now constant want and weakened vitality had made the charms of earth rather dull and inconspicuous.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We didn't have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them.
-- They stole that shirt right off o' the line!and as for that sheet they made the rag ladder out of, ther' ain't no telling how many times they DIDN'T steal that; and flour, and candles, and candlesticks, and spoons, and the old warming-pan, and most a thousand things that I disremember now, and my new calico dress; and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day AND night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and not only fools US but the Injun Terri- tory robbers too, and actuly gets AWAY with that nigger safe and sound, and that with sixteen men and twenty- two dogs right on their very heels at that very time!I tell you, it just bangs anything I ever HEARD of.
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