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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she had on a black dress and blackbonnet and no paint and really looked decent but for that red hair.
-- And to think that Rhett would have the gall to look a decent woman in the faceafter being with that creature!And to think that she could have believed he was in love with her!This proved hecouldn't be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then descried Mr. and Mrs. Hubble; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner.
-- He did everything for me except the household work, for which he had engaged a very decent woman, after paying off the laundress on his first arrival.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I trust, sir,' rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, with decent resignation, 'it is not necessary that you should do anything of that kind.
-- A few books and writings were on an old bureau in a corner, the furniture was decent and sufficient, and, though the atmosphere was tainted, the room was clean.
-- I ha' gotten decent fewtrils about me agen.
-- The old woman was so decent and contented, and made so light of her infirmities, though they had increased upon her since her former interview with Stephen, that they both took an interest in her.
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：
-- The life of the mind needs a comfortable house and decent cooking.
-- 'It's the only decent thing, to go to bed with her.
-- 'Then let's leave it all alone, and just be decent and simple, like proper human beings with one another.
-- They're too decent for that.
-- This has brought a few decent names trailing through the mud, and the thing has gone quite considerably too far.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Loose, seaman-like trousers, decent shoes, a long red cap, a red sash round his waist, and a knife in it.
-- He was dressed in decent black, a little rusty, and had the appearance of a sagacious master in some handicraft.
-- It was a very small establishment, wherein a decent woman sat behind the counter working at her needle.
-- Nevertheless, he did render the purport of his letter sufficiently clear, to enable Mr Merdle to make a decent pretence of having learnt it from that source.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
-- Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
-- However, hat and coat and overshoes were one by one removed, and hung up in a little space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
-- But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable, free-and-easy whaler!What does the whaler do when she meets another whaler in any sort of decent weather?
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