everlasting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 永久的, 永恒的，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they poured wine from the mixing-bowl into the cups, and prayed to the everlasting gods, saying, Trojans and Achae-ans among one another, 'Jove, most great and glorious, and ye other everlasting gods, grant that the brains of them who shall first sin against their oaths of them and their chil-dren may be shed upon the ground even as this wine, and let their wives become the slaves of strangers.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- was his everlasting question.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, it is likely the imps would have man-aged to master my scalp, so a day or two will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning of time.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- why cannot we push them back, only a week or two in our memories, so as to put them at once at that convenient distance whence they may be regarded either with a calm indifference or a pleasant effort of recollection!why will they hang about us, like the flavour of yesterday's wine, suggestive of headaches and lassitude, and those good intentions for the future, which, under the earth, form the everlasting pavement of a large estate, and, upon it, usually endure until dinner-time or thereabouts!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By her very suffering and humility she bound her son with chains, she held him her everlasting prisoner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Euroclydon!says old Dives, in his red silken wrapper (he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh!What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights!Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
-- What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood!They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
-- "I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother's son and soul of us belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in that we all join hands."
-- With all three masts making such an everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking over us, fore and aft.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this time I had recovered my-self a little, and I said, 'God will at last punish him severely; he is reserved for the judgment, and is to be cast into the bottomless pit, to dwell with everlasting fire.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither Lady Middleton nor Mrs. Jennings could supply to her the conversation she missed; although the latter was an everlasting talker, and from the first had regarded her with a kindness which ensured her a large share of her discourse.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, 'There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you there that people that acts as I'd been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire.'
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