reasonable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明智的; 合理的; 公平的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It shows that at last a reasonable and steady view of the matter is becoming prevalent among us."
-- He knew that however much they tried, they could not hire more than forty--thirty-seven perhaps or thirty- eight-- laborers for a reasonable sum.
-- Chapter 13 None but those who were most intimate with Alexey Alexandrovitch knew that, while on the surface the coldest and most reasonable of men, he had one weakness quite opposed to the general trend of his character.
-- These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The squareness of his head and a reasonable breadth of shoulders saved him from any appearance of effeminacy or of that querulous timidity which artistic young gentlemen call Sensitiveness.
-- He held reasonable and lengthy degrees, but he was a rich man and eccentric, and neither toiled in laboratories nor had a decent office and a home and a lacy wife.
-- If he said that fresh air was a good thing, instead of making me open my windows it'd make me or any other reasonable person close 'em.
-- "Well, if you want to KNOW, Martin Arrowsmith, I'll have no more of these high jinks with that Orchid girl!Practically hugging her when you came downstairs, and then mooning at her all evening!I don't mind your cursing and being cranky and even getting drunk, in a reasonable sort of way, but ever since the lunch when you told me and that Fox woman, 'I hope you girls won't mind, but I just happen to remember that I'm engaged to both of you'-- You're mine, and I won't have any trespassers.
-- Somehow, he was standing by the reading-desk, holding it for support, and his voice seemed to be going on, producing reasonable words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Allowme to say that I fully defer to the reasonable character of thatinquiry, and proceed to develop it; premising that it is not an objectof a pecuniary nature.
-- I will not say, at present, might he aspire to be Governor, oranything of that sort; but would there be a reasonable opening forhis talents to develop themselves- that, would be amplysufficientand find their own expansion?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- Mr. Knightley saw no such passion, and of course thought nothing of its effects; but she saw too much of it to feel a doubt of its overcoming any hesitations that a reasonable prudence might originally suggest; and more than a reasonable, becoming degree of prudence, she was very sure did not belong to Mr. Elton.
-- They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher, to fetch broth from Hartfield.
-- Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thorough-ly done; and she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them.
-- Still, however, affection was glad to catch at any reasonable excuse for not hurrying on the wretched mo-ment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When expressed with some amount of reflectiveness it seems co-ordinate with a belief that this flattery must be reasonable to be effective.
-- She belonged to him: the certainties of that position were so well defined, and the reasonable probabilities of its issue so bounded that she could not speculate on contingencies.
-- She might marry at once in every reasonable person's opinion, whatever the lawyers may say to the contrary."
-- No reasonable person has any doubt of his death; nor have you, ma'am, I should imagine."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money!An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
-- He could not deny this, and indeed was very reasonable throughout.
-- Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers principally rested his case.
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