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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wiser go their way with a decent grace.
-- We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence.
-- She wrote:"It's only decent to warn you that you will be bored to extinction.
-- "I'd like a decent meal."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A wicked boy, at all events," remarked the old lady, "and quite unfit for a decent house!Did you notice his language, Linton?
-- The curate dropped calling, and nobody decent came near us, at last; unless Edgar Linton's visits to Miss Cathy might be an exception.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The good woman, being not a little embarrassed by the novelty of her situation, and certain material apprehensions that perhaps by this time little Jacob, or the baby, or both, had fallen into the fire, or tumbled down stairs, or had been squeezed behind doors, or had scalded their windpipes in endeavouring to allay their thirst at the spouts of tea-kettles, preserved an uneasy silence; and meeting from the window the eyes of turnpike-men, omnibus-drivers, and others, felt in the new dignity of her position like a mourner at a funeral, who, not being greatly afflicted by the loss of the departed, recognizes his every-day acquaintance from the window of the mourning coach, but is constrained to preserve a decent solemnity, and the appearance of being indifferent to all external objects.
-- At the same table, with both her elbows upon it, was Mrs Jiniwin; no longer sipping other people's punch feloniously with teaspoons, but taking deep draughts from a jorum of her own; while her daughter not exactly with ashes on her head, or sackcloth on her back, but preserving a very decent and becoming appearance of sorrow nevertheless was reclining in an easy chair, and soothing her grief with a smaller allowance of the same glib liquid.
-- This functionary, being, of course, well used to such scenes; looking upon all kinds of robbery, from petty larceny up to housebreaking or ventures on the highway, as matters in the regular course of business; and regarding the perpetrators in the light of so many customers coming to be served at the wholesale and retail shop of criminal law where he stood behind the counter; received Mr Brass's statement of facts with about as much interest and surprise, as an undertaker might evince if required to listen to a circumstantial account of the last illness of a person whom he was called in to wait upon professionally; and took Kit into custody with a decent indifference.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sophia Ivanovna kept the girl in decent clothes, taught her to read and intended to give her an education.
-- Most of the visitors were poorly dressed, even ragged, but, judging by outward appearance, there were also some decent men and women among them.
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：
-- But there are a few decent people, decent in some respects.
-- "But she was a decent sort, really ""Render unto C脙娄sarina the things that are C脙娄sarina's," said Birkin, turning aside.
-- It seemed to her that Gerald was deliberately insulting her, and infringing on the decent privacy of them all.
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