decree是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 法令, 判决，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stern as the decree may seem, I will not repine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What is this decree that the smith spoke of?'
-- 'Truly, a decree for selling the property of emigrants.'
-- For, all things moved so fast, and decree followed decree with that fierce precipitation, that now upon the third night of the autumn month of September, patriot emissaries of the law were in possession of Monseigneur's house, and had marked it with 367the tri-colour, and were drinking brandy in its state apart-ments.
-- Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emi-grants on pain of Death.
-- It was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch was immediately interested in the subject, and began seriously defending the new imperial decree against Princess Betsy, who had attacked it.
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：
-- Against such a decree there was no Delaware sufficiently hardy to murmur, much less oppose himself.
-- Not a limb was moved, nor was a breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of Tamenund.
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：
-- He was ashamed just be-cause he, Raskolnikov, had so hopelessly, stupidly come to grief through some decree of blind fate, and must humble 756 Crime and Punishmenthimself and submit to 'the idiocy' of a sentence, if he were anyhow to be at peace.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The decree is issued by somebody.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should here observe to the reader, that a decree of the general assembly in this country is expressed by the word hnhloayn, which signifies an exhortation, as near as I can render it; for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up 358 Gulliver's Travelshis claim to be a rational creature.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She bore it very well, and quietly submitted to the family decree that she should not shorten her visit, for since it was too late to say goodbye to Beth, she had better stay, and let absence soften her sorrow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Ferrars at first reasonably endeavoured to dissuade him from marrying Miss Dashwood, by every argument in her power; told him, that in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune; and enforced the assertion, by observing that Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE; but when she found that, though perfectly admitting the truth of her representation, he was by no means inclined to be guided by it, she judged it wisest, from the experience of the past, to submit and therefore, after such an ungracious delay as she owed to her own dignity, and as served to prevent every suspicion of good-will, she issued her decree of consent to the marriage of Edward and Elinor.
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