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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He studied it furiously, and kept constantly muttering heterogeneous syllables.
-- On the 17th they set out in the usual line of march, a line which it was hard work for Robert to keep, his ardor constantly compelled him to get ahead of the MADRINA, to the great despair of his mule.
-- The six men commenced their explorations, keeping constantly to the line they had made in their descent, examining closely every fissure, and going into the very depths of the abysses, choked up though they partly were with fragments of the plateau; and more than one came out again with garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding.
-- The drought was constantly increasing, and the heat none the less for the wind being north, this wind being the simoom of the Pampas.
-- It was much cooler, thanks to the violent and cold winds from Patagonia, which constantly agitate the atmospheric waves.
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:
-- The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him, and on more than one occasion he has asked me whether I had on my medical journeys at night ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
-- Colia was indelicate enough to voice the delight he felt at his success in manag-ing to annoy Lizabetha Prokofievna, with whom, in spite of their really amicable relations, he was constantly sparring.
-- His words seemed tinged with a kind of sarcastic mock-ery, yet he was extremely agitated, casting suspicious glances around him, growing confused, and constantly losing the thread of his ideas.
-- Always restless, always on the go, she constantly seemed to lose her way, and to get into trouble over the simplest and more ordinary affairs of life.
-- To serve her brother's interests, Varvara Ardalionovna was constantly at the Epanchins' house, helped by the fact that in childhood she and Gania had played with General Ivan Fedorovitch's daughters.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As sheep dogs that watch their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain for-est towards them forthwith there is a hue and cry of dogs and men, and slumber is broken even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked night, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I looked on the rapid currents which ran constantly on both sides of the island at a distance, and which were very terrible to me from the remembrance of the hazard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me; for I foresaw that if I was driven into either of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and perhaps out of my reach or sight of the island again; and that then, as my boat was but small, if any little gale of wind should rise, I should be inevitably lost.
-- I was greatly de-lighted with him, and made it my business to teach him everything that was proper to make him useful, handy, and helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke; and he was the aptest scholar that ever was; and particularly was so merry, so constantly diligent, and so pleased when he could but understand me, or make me understand him, that it was very pleasant for me to talk to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But from such vain wishes she was forced to turn for comfort to the renewal of her confidence in Edward's affection, to the remembrance of every mark of regard in look or word which fell from him while at Barton, and above all to that flattering proof of it which he constantly wore round his finger.
-- Against the interest of her own individual comfort, Mrs. Dashwood had determined that it would be better for Marianne to be any where, at that time, than at Barton, where every thing within her view would be bringing back the past in the strongest and most afflicting manner, by constantly placing Willoughby before her, such as she had always seen him there.
-- She was before me, constantly before me, as I travelled, in the same look and hue."
-- Willoughby, "poor Willoughby," as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now acquitted herself for having judged him so harshly before.
-- She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The foreman became a true ogre, prowling constantly about, keeping her tied down to her miserable task.
-- She would have done better if she had not secured a position so quickly, and had seen more of the city which she constantly troubled to know about.
-- She had seen comparatively little of the manager during the winter, but had been kept constantly in mind of him by one thing and another, principally by the strong impression he had made.
-- She was constantly pained by the sight of the white- faced, ragged men who slopped desperately by her in a sort of wretched mental stupor.
-- He constantly listened, expecting to hear her foot on the stair.
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