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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Depend upon Ivol-gin,' said they all, 'he is as steady as a rock.'
-- 'You'd soon have thrown up all this rowdyism that you indulge in now, and you'd have settled down to quiet, steady money-making, because you have little education; and here you'd have stayed just like your father before you.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ringing as the note of a trumpet that sounds alarm then the foe is at the gates of a city, even so brazen was the voice of the son of Aeacus, and when the Trojans heard its clarion tones they were dismayed; the horses turned back with their chariots for they boded mischief, and their drivers were awe-struck by the steady flame which the grey-eyed goddess had kindled above the head of the great son of Peleus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Twill steady ye."
-- I must get steady a bit.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Steady on there!'
-- 'Listen to me for a moment,' said the steady voice of Moreau; 'and then say what you will.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us go on,' and Kaa seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with his steady eyes, and keeping to it.
-- So he hurried on, keeping to the rough road that ran down the valley, and followed it at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles, till he came to a country that he did not know.
-- When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the horrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady wolf's trot that eats up the long miles like fire.
-- As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his 'attention' notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady 'Ding-dong-tock!Nag is dead dong!Nagaina is dead!Ding-dong-tock!'
-- But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just the same.
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：
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- He paused and turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady pace, in undisturbed gravity.
-- This deed of apparent cruelty, but of real ne-cessity, fell upon the spirits of the travelers like a terrific warning of the peril in which they stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene.
-- The scout directed Heyward and his disconsolate fellow travelers to seat them-selves in the forward end of the canoe, and took possession of the other himself, as erect and steady as if he floated in a vessel of much firmer materials.
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy sulkily complied, muttering at first, but desisting when he looked round and saw that Quilp was following him with a steady look.
-- When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again!Yes, there he was, looking more obstinate than ever; and alone in the chaise, keeping a steady watch upon his every wink, sat Mr Abel, who, lifting up his eyes by chance and seeing Kit pass by, nodded to him as though he would have nodded his head off.
-- No money; no credit; no support from Fred, who seems to turn steady all at once; notice to quit the old lodgings staggerers, three, four, five, and six!Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent.
-- Miss Sally pulled out the tin snuff-box, and took a long, slow pinch, regarding her brother with a steady gaze all the time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud thud thud, like the beating of some big engine; and I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts.
-- At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
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