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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After four hours of steady traveling, the horses stopped of themselves before the door of the presbytery of Stapi.
-- The guide, on the contrary, calm, ready, moderate, wore away the hard rock by little steady blows of his instrument, making no attempt at a larger hole than about six inches.
-- A steady breeze from the northwest.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first Connie suffered from the steady drizzle of resentment that came from the village.
-- She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure.
-- But I should never forget what they said about Ted, for he was as steady and fearless a chap as ever set foot on the cage, and it was as good as branding him a coward.
-- She looked with wide, steady eyes into his face.
-- Tin people!It's all a steady sort of bolshevism just killing off the human thing, and worshipping the mechanical thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a quiet, plain, steady man; made no attempt to escape; and seemed a little depressed, but neither ashamed nor repentant.
-- Submitting himself to the old tone of condescending authority, John Baptist, not at all steady on his legs as yet, advanced and put his hand in his patron's.
-- Three or four days of steady application tendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with.
-- To the extent of anything that our House can do we are in a retired, old-fashioned, steady way of business, sir we shall be happy to render you our best assistance.
-- said Daniel, in his steady even way, 'I'll try to make it so.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Monday morning the weather was in that undecided state which is more exasperating than a steady pour.
-- Laurie was a young lover, but he was in earnest, and meant to 'have it out', if he died in the attempt, so he plunged into the subject with characteristic impetuousity, saying in a voice that would get choky now and then, in spite of man-ful efforts to keep it steady .
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang, his steady notes were heard, "Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,Stand dressed in living green.So to the Jews old Canaan stood,While Jordan rolled between."
-- So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
-- From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
-- Then seating himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank.
-- Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his way, swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty shoulders for a pedestal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver raised his head, and returned his steady look.
-- The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friend-ship, in spite of great opposition of character.
-- Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday, and though they were at one time left by themselves for half-an-hour, he adhered most conscien-tiously to his book, and would not even look at her.
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