steady是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 稳的, 平稳的; 稳定的, 持续的; 稳重的, 坚定的; v. (使) 平稳, (使) 稳，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her heart had been long growing kinder towards Jane; and this picture of her present sufferings acted as a cure of every former un-generous suspicion, and left her nothing but pity; and the remembrance of the less just and less gentle sensations of the past, obliged her to admit that Jane might very natu-rally resolve on seeing Mrs. Cole or any other steady friend, when she might not bear to see herself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace.
-- "No; not a steady girl like Fanny!"
-- The restless and shadowy figure of a colt wandered about a loose-box at the end, whilst the steady grind of all the eaters was occasionally diversified by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot.
-- She resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.
-- Her singing was soft and rather tremulous at first, but it soon swelled to a steady clearness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu-siasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found poker the most useful of allSouthern customs, poker and a steady head for whisky; and it was his natural aptitude for cards and amber liquor thatbrought to Gerald two of his three most prized possessions, his valet and his plantation.
-- There was a steady little dink-clink of metal on metal and cries of "Wait wait!I've got it unfastened now.
-- Soon a steady stream of them was established, making theirpainful way into town toward the hospitals, their faces black as negroes' from powder stains, dust and sweat, theirwounds unbandaged, blood drying, flies swarming about them.
-- and the sight of Prissy's abjectterror helped steady her.
-- The smell of smoke came stronger and stronger,and on the wings of the hot breeze came a pandemonium of sound from the center of town, yells, the dull rumbling ofheavy army wagons and the steady tramp of marching feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Biddy, with a steady sort of glance.
-- "And your sister," he resumed, after a little steady eating, "which had the honor of bringing you up by hand!It's a sad picter, to reflect that she's no longer equal to fully understanding the honor.
-- They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed.
-- Does any one live, who knows what a steady memory you have, half as well as I do?
-- I tried to keep my hand steady while I did so, but his look at me as he leaned back in his chair with the long draggled end of his neckerchief between his teeth--evidently forgotten--made my hand very difficult to master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a steady Hand, and I was not mistaken.
-- 'Now, you have always been a steady Hand hitherto; but my opinion is, and so I tell you plainly, that you are turning into the wrong road.
-- He now spoke in a voice rather less steady than usual.
-- Louisa looked, in part incredulous, in part frightened, in part overcome with quick sympathy, when this man of so much self-command, who had been so plain and steady through the late interview, lost his composure in a moment, and now stood with his hand before his face.
-- And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving.
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