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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know whether I ought to be confidential with you, prince; but, I assure you, you are the only decent fellow I have come across.
-- She observed that, as usual, the whole family had gone much too far ahead, and had converted a fly into an elephant; that, so far as she had heard their sto-ry, she was persuaded that nothing of any seriousness had occurred; that it would surely be better to wait until some-thing DID happen; that the prince, in her opinion, was a very decent young fellow, though perhaps a little eccentric, through illness, and not quite as weighty in the world as one could wish.
-- But he goes further, he actually pitches into me because, as he declares, 'any decent fellow' would die quietly, and that 'all this' is mere egotism on my part.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it is And besides, what will become of the decent part of the Beast Folk?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He next named the page and verse where the rhymes se-lected were to be found, and applied the pitch-pipe to his lips, with the decent gravity that he had been wont to use in the temple.
-- After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and, approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to entreat a blessing.
-- Seated, as in life, with his form and limbs arranged in grave and decent composure, Uncas appeared, arrayed in the most gorgeous ornaments that the wealth of the tribe could furnish.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his devour-ing mind's eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfort-able pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrayed in decent black; occupying a conspicuous pulpit; intent on bible leaves; what a candidate for an archbishopric, what a lad for a Pope were this mincer!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was opened for this purpose, and a couple of men were preparing to carry the insensible boy to his cell; when an elderly man of decent but poor appearance, clad in an old suit of black, rushed hastily into the office, and advanced towards the bench.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was borne in the latter with decent philosophy.
-- As they passed through the hall, Lady Catherine opened the doors into the dining-parlour and drawing-room, and pronounc-ing them, after a short survey, to be decent looking rooms, walked on.
-- He could even listen to Sir William Lucas, when he complimented him on carrying away the brightest jewel of the country, and expressed his hopes of their all meeting frequently at St. James's, with very decent composure.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A very decent shot, and there is not a bolder rider in England."
-- That was what I said immediately. I was most uncommonly shocked, indeed! Poor Edward! he has done for himself completely shut himself out for ever from all decent society! but, as I directly said to my mother, I am not in the least surprised at it; from his style of education, it was always to be expected.
-- " But though Mrs. Ferrars DID come to see them, and always treated them with the make-believe of decent affection, they were never insulted by her real favour and preference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What we know of foot-rests, swivel-back chairs, dining-rooms for the girls, clean aprons and curling irons supplied free, and a decent cloak room, were unthought of.
-- He knew hotels well enough to know that any decent individual was welcome to a chair in the lobby.
-- He had some money, he had a decent suit remaining, he was not bad looking when dressed up.
-- If she were only once in, getting a decent salary, wearing the kind of clothes she liked, having the money to do with, going here and there as she pleased, how delightful it would all be.
-- I haven't a decent tie of any kind to wear."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Widow Doug- las she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, con- sidering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
-- Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
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