eternal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 永久的, 不朽的; 不停的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was ap-pointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore.
-- Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shad-ows of the night were broad and black.
-- There must be something short-sighted in the eternal ar-rangements, surely!Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its pur-chase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenome-non so low and unaccountable.
-- With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revul-sion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
-- I know from terrible warnings I have noted in myself that my reason will not long remain unim-paired, but I solemnly declare that I am at this time in the possession of my right mind that my memory is exact and circumstantial and that I write the truth as I shall answer for these my last recorded words, whether they be ever read 455by men or not, at the Eternal Judgment-seat.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sal-low arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of 'Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fact that he had in this transient, trivial life made, as it seemed to him, a few trivial mistakes tortured him as though the eternal salvation in which he believed had no existence.
-- There was nothing left for me but to think of my eternal salvation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not wait for the Norbloms to make up their minds, though they had become to him dread and eternal figures whose enmity would crush him; prodigious gods shadowing this Wheatsylvania which was the only perceptible world.
-- Sondelius still insisted that in this crisis mere experimentation was heartless, yet he listened to Martin's close-reasoned fury with enthusiasm which this bull-necked eternal child had for anything which sounded new and preferably true.
-- Oh, Mart, if you knew how my heart bleeds to see these ignorant fellows going unrepentant to eternal torture!
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：
-- Sonia, Sonia Marmeladov, the eternal victim so long as the world lasts.
-- The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been read-ing together the eternal book.
-- Of course I should have vowed eternal love, rapture, and so on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was awarm, dusty evening, just the time when, in the great mainthoroughfare out of which that by-way turned, there was atemporary lull in the eternal tread of feet upon the pavement, and astrong red sunshine.
-- Oh, Emily!Unhappybeauty!What a picture rose before me of her sitting on the far-offshore, among the children like herself when she was innocent, 620listening to little voices such as might have called her Mother hadshe been a poor man's wife; and to the great voice of the sea, withits eternal 'Never more!'
-- I came into the valley, as the evening sun was shining on theremote heights of snow, that closed it in, like eternal clouds.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But 'she could never get acquainted with her: she did not know how it was, but there was such coldness and reserve such apparent indifference whether she pleased or not and then, her aunt was such an eternal talker! and she was made such a fuss with by every body! and it had been always imagined that they were to be so intimate because their ages were the same, every body had supposed they must be so fond of each other.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
-- Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!Yet I ask you not to spare me; listen to me, and then, if you can, and if you will, de-stroy the work of your hands.'
-- In-flamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.
-- ''Frankenstein!you belong then to my enemy to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.'
-- These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot de-scribe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
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