perpetual是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 永久的, 永恒的,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to the sentiment which this journey might have awakened in him, there was clearly no trace of such a thing; while poor Passepartout existed in perpetual reveries.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly 714 Crime and Punishmentprinted on all faces of Jewish race without exception.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The patienceand hope with which he bore these perpetual disappointments, themild perception he had that there was something wrong aboutKing Charles the First, the feeble efforts he made to keep him out,and the certainty with which he came in, and tumbled theMemorial out of all shape, made a deep impression on me.
-- She rubs everything that can be rubbed, until 581it shines, like her own honest forehead, with perpetual friction.
-- She wasa woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject(particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fieryrash.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have no reason to think ill of her not the least except that such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.'
-- My perpetual influ-ence could not begin earlier, or you would not have been so much out of humour before.'
-- 'The consequence,' said she, 'has been a state of perpetual suffering to me; and so it ought.
-- She must have been a perpetual enemy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.
-- Perpetual fret-ting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever.
-- I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many ap-pearances which were at first enigmatic.
-- They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which de-prived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.
-- In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
-- In my rooms too, with which she had never been at all associated, there was at once the blankness of death and a perpetual suggestion of the sound of her voice or the turn of her face or figure, as if she were still alive and had been often there.
-- It was a dull evening, for Wemmick drew his wine, when it came round, quite as a matter of business,--just as he might have drawn his salary when that came round,--and with his eyes on his chief, sat in a state of perpetual readiness for cross-examination.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous 83and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.
-- Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment; and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they de-spise as vulgar and mechanic; those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
-- Three kings protested to me, 'that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again:' and they showed, with great strength of rea-son, 'that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restiff temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.'
-- 'These struldbrugs and I would mutually communicate our observations and memorials, through the course of time; remark the several gradations by which corruption steals into the world, and oppose it in every step, by giv-ing perpetual warning and instruction to mankind; which, added to the strong influence of our own example, would probably prevent that continual degeneracy of human na-ture so justly complained of in all ages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With no disrespect for your judgment, and with no doubt of your sincerity, excuse my saying that I cling to the belief that there is yet hope that I am not condemned to perpetual exile from that lady's presence.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that period of the world which preceded the secondary epoch, the earth was covered by a coating of enormous and rich vegetation, due to the double action of tropical heat and perpetual humidity.
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