consistent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (in) 前后一致的； (with) 一致， 符合，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：
-- 'He appears to be a very consistent character.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It became known that after this orgy Nastasia Philipovna had entirely disappeared, and that she had since been traced to Moscow; so that the ex-odus of the Rogojin band was found consistent with this report.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
-- Levin knew all this; and it was agonizingly painful to him to behold the supplicating, hopeful eyes and the emaciated wrist, lifted with difficulty, making the sign of the cross on the tense brow, and the prominent shoulders and hollow, gasping chest, which one could not feel consistent with the life the sick man was praying for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, finding you true gold, a very lady, and an ill-used innocent,with a fresh heart full of love and trustfulnesswhich you look like,and is quite consistent with your story!- I have something more tosay.
-- The suddenness with which he dropped it,when he perceived that it was useless to him; the malice, insolence,and hatred he revealed; the leer with which he exulted, even at thismoment, in the evil he had done- all this time being desperate too,and at his wits' end for the means of getting the better of us-though perfectly consistent with the experience I had of him, atfirst took even me by surprise, who had known him so long, anddisliked him so heartily.
-- It would have been in vainto represent to such a man as the worshipful Mr. Creakle, thatTwenty Seven and Twenty Eight were perfectly consistent andunchanged; that exactly what they were then, they had alwaysbeen; that the hypocritical knaves were just the subjects to makethat sort of profession in such a place; that they knew its market-value at least as well as we did, in the immediate service it woulddo them when they were expatriated; in a word, that it was arotten, hollow, painfully suggestive piece of business altogether.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, however, I see nothing in it but a very natural and consistent degree of discretion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
-- Miss Skiffins's composure while she did this was one of the most remarkable sights I have ever seen, and if I could have thought the act consistent with abstraction of mind, I should have deemed that Miss Skiffins performed it mechanically.
-- My former chill crept over me again, but I was resolved not to speak yet, for it was quite consistent with his words that he might be set on to induce me to connect these references with Provis.
-- After I had turned the worst point of my illness, I began to notice that while all its other features changed, this one consistent feature did not change.
-- "You don't eat 'em," returned Mr. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was as much amused and interested, at present, as it became so fine a gentleman to be; perhaps even more than it would have been consistent with his reputation to confess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the return of that lady to tea, she had touched herself up with a little powder and pomatum, and was not without moral enchantment likewise: the latter showing itself in much sweet patronage of manner towards Miss Dorrit, and in an air of as tender interest in Mr Dorrit as was consistent with rigid propriety.
-- As she was observed at this time to direct baleful glances towards the Marshalsea, it has been supposed that this admirably consistent female intended by 'him,' Arthur Clennam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Noah's shouts were responded to, by a loud scream from Charlotte, and a louder from Mrs. Sowerberry; the former of whom rushed into the kitchen by a side-door, while the latter paused on the staircase till she was quite certain that it was consistent with the preservation of human life, to come further down.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- 'This fine account of him,' whispered her aunt as theywalked, 'is not quite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such a case, a plain and open avowal of his difficulties would have been more to his honour I think, as well as more consistent with his general character; but I will not raise objections against any one's conduct on so illiberal a foundation, as a difference in judgment from myself, or a deviation from what I may think right and consistent."
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