decline是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 下降; 衰退, 减弱; 谢绝，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：
-- And his brother, who was in command of one of the most expensive regiments, and was only just married, could not decline the gift.
-- To decline the flattering and dangerous appointment at Tashkend would have been, Vronsky had till then considered, disgraceful and impossible.
-- Now eight districts had agreed to call upon him: if two refused to do so, Snetkov might decline to stand at all; and then the old party might choose another of their party, which would throw them completely out in their reckoning.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I decline to let you go.
-- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Theprincipal gentleman who officiated behind the counter, took agood deal of notice of me; and often got me, I recollect, to decline aLatin noun or adjective, or to conjugate a Latin verb, in his ear,while he transacted my business.
-- Look at Barclay andPerkins!Look at Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton!It is on thatextensive footing that Mr. Micawber, I know from my ownknowledge of him, is calculated to shine; and the profits, I am told,are e-NOR-mous!But if Mr. Micawber cannot get into those firms,-which decline to answer his letters, when he offers his serviceseven in an inferior capacity- what is the use of dwelling upon thatidea?
-- Do you decline to take those letters,Mr.
-- You will allow me, as a privateindividual, to decline pursuing a subject which has lashed me tothe utmost verge of desperation in my professional capacity.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will say that I am quite an invalid, and go no where, and therefore must decline their obliging invitation; begin-ning with my compliments, of course.
-- Besides the Eltons, it must be the Westons and Mr. Knightley; so far it was all of course and it was hardly less inevitable that poor little Harriet must be asked to make the eighth: but this invitation was not given with equal satisfaction, and on many accounts Emma was particularly pleased by Harriet's begging to be allowed to decline it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I said I wanted you just to mention that it was not true I was going to be married to him," she murmured, with a slight decline in her assurance.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What had brought about this decline and fall?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
-- I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous ge-nius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans of their subsequent degenerating of the decline of that mighty empire, of chiv-alry, Christianity, and kings.
-- I see him now, excellent and venerable old man!His eyes wandered in va-cancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight his Elizabeth, his more than daughter, whom he doted on with all that affection which a man feels, who in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Dr. Fontaine told Ellen gravely that heartbreak frequently led to a decline and women pined away into thegrave, Ellen went white, for that fear was what she had carried in her heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber-frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan.
-- I tried to decline taking the guinea on the first occasion, but with no better effect than causing her to ask me very angrily, if I expected more?
-- "You may," said he, "and I may decline to answer it.
-- I wrote, however, to Mr. Trabb by next day's post, to say that Mr. Pip must decline to deal further with one who could so far forget what he owed to the best interests of society, as to employ a boy who excited Loathing in every respectable mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not decline the honor of having named it; given your name to an island discovered by us, the first human beings who trod it since the creation of the world!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm glad to hear it; because I should have had to decline it, if I had been.
-- The most striking of these was perhaps the relishing manner in which he remarked on the pensioner's infirmities and failings, as if he were a gracious Keeper making a running commentary on the decline of the harmless animal he exhibited.
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