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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," replied McNabbs, without apparently noticing the EMPRESSMENT of the quartermaster—an EMPRESSMENT which, moreover, was reasonable enough under the circumstances.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your request is a very reasonable one,' Holmes answered.
-- 'That seems the most reasonable theory,' said Stapleton, and he gave a sigh which I took to indicate his relief.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was much more likely to overstep the bounds of reasonable conduct by some extraordinary eccentricity.
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- 'Everyone has his worries, prince, especially in these strange and troublous times of ours,' Lebedeff replied, drily, and with the air of a man disappointed of his reasonable expectations.
-- He guessed at once that they knew perfectly well who he was, and that yesterday ought to have been his wedding-day; and further that they were dying to ask about the wedding, and especially about why he should be here now, inquiring for the woman who in all reasonable human probability might have been expected to be with him in Pavlofsk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When there are two parties to a bargain, it is only reasonable that the interests of both should be consulted; is it, my good friend?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regi-ment should be quartered in Meryton.
-- It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement, she could, per-haps, believe that remaining partiality for her might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned.
-- To Jane, he could be only a man whose propos-als she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the per-son to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
-- 'And this,' said she, 'is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection!of all his sister's falsehood and contriv-ance!the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!'
-- I expected to find a more reasonable young woman.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight.
-- My hedge was begun and carried on, I believe, about fif-ty yards when this thought occurred to me; so I presently stopped short, and, for the beginning, I resolved to enclose a piece of about one hundred and fifty yards in length, and one hundred yards in breadth, which, as it would maintain as many as I should have in any reasonable time, so, as my stock increased, I could add more ground to my enclosure.
-- Here I was run down again by him to the last degree; and it was a testimo-ny to me, how the mere notions of nature, though they will guide reasonable creatures to the knowledge of a God, and of a worship or homage due to the supreme being of God, as the consequence of our nature, yet nothing but divine revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of redemption purchased for us; of a Mediator of the new cov-enant, and of an Intercessor at the footstool of God's throne; I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form these in the soul; and that, therefore, the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I mean the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, promised for the guide and sanctifier of His people, are the absolutely necessary instructors of the souls of men in the saving knowledge of God and the means of salvation.
-- He gave me all the assurances that the invention or faith of man could devise that he would comply with these most reasonable demands, and besides would owe his life to me, and acknowledge it upon all occasions as long as he lived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbade the indulgence of his affection.
-- His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
-- A few years however will settle her opinions on the reasonable basis of common sense and observation; and then they may be more easy to define and to justify than they now are, by any body but herself."
-- I was repulsed indeed!I have passed a wretched night in endeavouring to excuse a conduct which can scarcely be called less than insulting; but though I have not yet been able to form any reasonable apology for your behaviour, I am perfectly ready to hear your justification of it.
-- It is a reasonable and laudable pride which resists such malevolence."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Be reasonable now," he said.
-- The large bill of fare held an array of dishes sufficient to feed an army, sidelined with prices which made reasonable expenditure a ridiculous impossibility--an order of soup at fifty cents or a dollar, with a dozen kinds to choose from; oysters in forty styles and at sixty cents the half-dozen; entrees, fish, and meats at prices which would house one over night in an average hotel.
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