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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words of reasonable counsel he persuaded his brother, whereon his squires gladly stripped the ar-mour from off his shoulders.
-- Prepare a feast for your councillors; it is right and reasonable that you should do so; there is abundance of wine in your tents, which the ships of the Achaeans bring from Thrace daily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul.
-- I know this is an illusion; that these seeming men and women about me are indeed men and women, men and women for ever, perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic Law, beings altogether different from the Beast Folk.
-- And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid.
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：
-- However, as flesh and blood are not always the same, it is quite reasonable to sup-pose that the gentle ones are willing to rest, after all they have seen and done this day.
-- The land had been cleared of wood for a reasonable distance around the work, but every other part of the scene lay in the green liv-ery of nature, except where the limpid water mellowed the view, or the bold rocks thrust their black and naked heads above the undulating outline of the mountain ranges.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Balt Van Tassel was an easy indul-gent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
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：
-- I was very young, and perhaps she liked the idea of guiding my virgin steps on the hard road of letters; while for me it was pleasant to have someone I could go to with my small troubles, certain of an attentive ear and reasonable counsel.
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation; but his intelligence was adequate to his surroundings, and that is a passport, not only to reasonable success, but still more to happiness.
-- "We're not all reasonable beings," I laughed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the plain question is, an't it a pity that this state of things should continue, and how much better would it be for the gentleman to hand over a reasonable amount of tin, and make it all right and comfortable?'
-- As she was making her way to her own bed, she determined to say nothing of this adventure, as upon whatever errand the dwarf had come (and she feared it must have been in search of them) it was clear by his inquiry about the London coach that he was on his way homeward, and as he had passed through that place, it was but reasonable to suppose that they were safer from his inquiries there, than they could be elsewhere.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it.
-- With the plain, reasonable daylight, I could look my circumstances fairly in the face.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will not say there was a mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of obstinacy, Captain Farragut (as Columbus did) asked for three days' patience.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the tru th I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
-- I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.
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