constantly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adv. 经常地,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar(as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times,shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped hisears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwisetouzled and maltreated him.
-- Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone 52was, her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servantshad a man secreted somewhere on the premises.
-- What an amazing place London was to me when I saw it in thedistance, and how I believed all the adventures of all my favourite 73heroes to be constantly enacting and re-enacting there, and how Ivaguely made it out in my own mind to be fuller of wonders andwickedness than all the cities of the earth, I need not stop here torelate.
-- The one greatoutrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was thepassage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.
-- In fact, I found out afterwards that Mr. Dick had been 197for upwards of ten years endeavouring to keep King Charles theFirst out of the Memorial: but he had been constantly getting intoit, and was there now.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- Maple Grove will probably be my model more than it ought to be for we do not at all affect to equal my brother, Mr. Suckling, in income. However, my resolution is taken as to noticing Jane Fairfax. I shall certainly have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can, shall have musi-cal parties to draw out her talents, and shall be constantly on the watch for an eligible situation.
-- 'I did not make the allowances,' said she, 'which I ought to have done, for his temper and spirits his delightful spirits, and that gaiety, that playful-ness of disposition, which, under any other circumstances, would, I am sure, have been as constantly bewitching to me, as they were at first.'
-- He has had great faults, faults of inconsideration and thoughtlessness; and I am very much of his opinion in thinking him likely to be happier than he deserves: but still as he is, beyond a doubt, really attached to Miss Fairfax, and will soon, it may be hoped, have the advantage of being constantly with her, I am very ready to believe his character will improve, and acquire from hers the steadiness and delicacy of principle that it wants.
-- She felt that, in quitting Donwell, he must be sac-rificing a great deal of independence of hours and habits; that in living constantly with her father, and in no house of his own, there would be much, very much, to be borne with.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.
-- Moreover, it was not at all unlikely that his wife would fail at her farming, if she had not already done so; and he would then become liable for her maintenance: and what a life such a future of poverty with her would be, the spectre of Fanny constantly between them, harrowing his temper and embittering her words!Thus, for reasons touching on distaste, regret, and shame commingled, he put off his return from day to day, and would have decided to put it off altogether if he could have found anywhere else the ready-made establishment which existed for him there.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He saw how constantly the poverty, which they had generously hidden from him, weighed upon them; he could not help comparing the sisters, who had seemed so beautiful to his boyish eyes, with women in Paris, who had realized the beauty of his dreams.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within.
-- I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me and was ever on the watch to prevent artifice, and by these means gained a greater degree of tranquillity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.
-- Letters from men at the front complained constantly of shoes that wore outin a week, gunpowder that would not ignite, harness that snapped at any strain, meat that was rotten and flour that wasfull of weevils.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.
-- "O yes, I constantly expect to see him," returned Herbert, "because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling.
-- "It is a part of Miss Havisham's plans for me, Pip," said Estella, with a sigh, as if she were tired; "I am to write to her constantly and see her regularly and report how I go on,--I and the jewels,--for they are nearly all mine now."
-- There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.
-- "I have been thrown among one family of your relations, Miss Havisham, and have been constantly among them since I went to London.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throw-ing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.
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