decent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 正当的, 合适的; 得体的; 尚可的，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：
-- asked his decent wife, when he took another bite.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong.
-- One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.
-- You know in decent society one doesn't talk or think even of certain details of the toilet.
-- "Yes, he's a decent fellow, and will look at the thing properly," Vronsky said to himself, catching the significance of Golenishtchev's face and the change of subject.
-- As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at what price they wanted rooms, it appeared that there was not one decent room for them; one decent room had been taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the country.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.
-- He said that the Digams were a "bunch of bum sports; don't even have a decent game of poker," but he was fleeing from the hard eyes of Angus Duer.
-- I realize all the stuff we're missing: music and literature, yes, and decent clothes, too--no harm to dressing well--" "That's just what I was tellin' you!She'll have you all dolled up in a Prince Albert and a boiled shirt, diagnosing everything as rich-widowitis.
-- She'll be supporting herself in a few months, and meanwhile I expect you to be decent enough to send her money."
-- It was an expansive dinner, with admirable hock, the first decent German wine Gottlieb had drunk in years.
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：
-- And how they managed to get together the mon-ey for a decent outfit eleven roubles, fifty copecks, I can't guess.
-- Then Razumihin began to unfold his project, and he explained at length that almost all our publishers and book-sellers know nothing at all of what they are selling, and for that reason they are usually bad publishers, and that any decent publications pay as a rule and give a profit, some-times a considerable one.
-- I am ready to admit that a decent man ought to put up with being bored, but yet 芒聙娄' 'And could you shoot yourself?'
-- I at once fixed on my plan, sat down by the mother, and began by saying that I too was a stranger and that people here were ill-bred and that they couldn't distin-guish decent folks and treat them with respect, gave her to understand that I had plenty of money, offered to take them home in my carriage.
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 a perfectly decent room,half parlour and half kitchen, but not at all a snug room.
-- Istayed to dine at a decent alehouse, some mile or two from theferry I have mentioned before; and thus the day wore away, and itwas evening when I reached it.
-- I had engaged a bed at a decent ale-houseclose by, and was going out at the gate, when, happening to turnmy head, I saw a light in the Doctor's study.
-- If, by the coursewhich may relieve the mind of the decent man you brought here(for whom I am sorry- I can say no more), my son may be savedfrom again falling into the snares of a designing enemy, well!'
-- There are decent women in this house, I am told;and it is a pity such a light as you should be among them, andconcealed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable main-tenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! It was likely to be as untainted, perhaps, as the blood of many a gentleman: but what a connexion had she been preparing for Mr. Knightley or for the Churchills or even for Mr. Elton! The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None of these were clothed to any extent worth mentioning, each appearing to have hit in the matter of raiment the decent mean between a high and low caste Hindoo.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was just that Yankee stepmother who squalled and said I was a wildbarbarian and decent people weren't safe around uncivilized Southerners."
-- After this afternoon, there won't be a decent home in town that he'll be welcome in.
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