decency是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 体面，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think of our having a job where we've got nothing to sell but honesty and decency and the brotherhood o' man!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!if those who rule the destinies of nations would but remember this if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found if they would but turn aside from the wide thoroughfares and great houses, and strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk many low roofs would point more truly to the sky, than the loftiest steeple that now rears proudly up from the midst of guilt, and crime, and horrible disease, to mock them by its contrast.
-- A poor widow struggling to maintain her orphans in decency and comfort, is a delicious picture of human goodness. Put down your hat, Kit.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And those who were so traitorous as not to believe should, at least, have the decency tokeep their mouths shut.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He'd better have left her to the Turks, I'm sure they would have had more decency towards her."
-- "Yes," she cried, "and if you have a spark of decency in you, be grateful."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His majesty gave orders, upon pain of death, that every soldier in his march should observe the strictest decency with re-gard to my person; which however could not prevent some of the younger officers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me: and, to confess the truth, my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition, that they afforded some opportunities for laughter and admiration.
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
-- In the middle was a large rack, with angles answering to every partition of the manger; so that each horse and mare ate their own hay, and their own mash of oats and milk, with much decency and regularity.
-- I therefore told my master, 'that in the country whence I came, those of my kind always covered their bodies with the hairs of certain animals prepared by art, as well for decency as to avoid the inclemencies of air, both hot and cold; of which, as to my own person, I would give him immediate conviction, if he pleased to command me: only desiring his excuse, if I did not expose those parts that nature taught us to conceal.'
-- They preserve decency and civility in the highest de-grees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony.
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：
-- After all, Michaelis had had the decency to turn away.
-- A dozen years ago, common decency would have hushed the thing.
-- But common decency no longer exists, and the colliers' wives are all up in arms and unabashed in voice.
-- I told him I intended to have decency ob-served on my estate, to which he replied: 'Then you mun button the mouths o' a' th' women.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human recognition which is the meanest slave's right; thus treated, this Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was shrewd after his kind, and yet there was enough decency in the man to stop him from making any effectual protest.
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