| 释义 |
constancyn.
1. consistency,certainty前后一致，确实。
△Mid.5.1.26:“something of great constancy；”真情实况。
2. persistence,firmness,perseverance坚持，坚定，不屈不挠。
△Mac.2.2.69(65):“Your constancy/Hath leftyou unattended. ”i.e. Your firmness has desertedyou. 你平素的那一种坚毅把你抛弃了。
△H.VIII.3.2.1:“Ifyou will now unite in your complaints./And forcethem with a constancy. the Cardinal / Cannot standunder them.”只要你们在控诉之中联合起来，并且坚持不懈地进行下去，红衣主教在这种压力下就会站不住脚。
3.(used ironically) fickleness（反语）反复无常。
△Tw.2.4. 76(75): “I would have men of such constancy (i.e.as Orsino’s) put to sea,that their business might beevery thing and their intent every where. for that’s itthat always makes a good voyage of nothing.” i.e.Iwould have men of such fickleness make a voyage,that they might have business in everything and in-tend to go everywhere;for that’s what always bringsback a good cargo of nothing.(If you aim at everything,you achieve nothing.)我希望像你这样没有恒心的人去航海，他们什么事情都想做，什么地方都想去，因为，这么一来，这一场航海才能弄得毫无所得，空空而归。(按：主意不定，两手空空。) |