decide是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 决定， 下决心； 解决， 裁决，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In three minutes, without pause or modification, she had written a letter to Boldwood, at his address beyond Casterbridge, saying mildly but firmly that she had well considered the whole subject he had brought before her and kindly given her time to decide upon; that her final decision was that she could not marry him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved, at least, not to despair, but in every way to fit myself for an interview with them which would decide my fate.
-- 'My heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes or realize my fears.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they would decide to run off toJonesboro that very afternoon and Why, by this time tomorrow night, she might be Mrs. Ashley Wilkes!
-- "I can't decide now whether to go with Mr. Wade Hampton's South Carolina Legion or with the Atlanta GateCity Guard."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At those times, I would decide conclusively that my disaffection to dear old Joe and the forge was gone, and that I was growing up in a fair way to be partners with Joe and to keep company with Biddy,--when all in a moment some confounding remembrance of the Havisham days would fall upon me like a destructive missile, and scatter my wits again.
-- It would seem a simple matter to decide on these precautions; but in my dazed, not to say distracted, state, it took so long, that I did not get out to further them until two or three in the afternoon.
-- And the worst was, that I must decide quickly, or I should miss the afternoon coach, which would take me down in time for to-night.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had been unable to decide whether they would keep together and have the things in common, or whether they would separate.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What share of knowledge these lords had in the laws of their country, and how they came by it, so as to enable them to decide the properties of their fellow-sub-jects in the last resort?
-- 'Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right.
-- Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of proper-ty, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perju-ry, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their na-ture or their office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only condition (over and above your good behaviour) I make is, that you decide now, at once, whether to accompany me or remain here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having come to this determination I ascended the tunnel for at least half an hour, unable to decide if I had ever seen certain landmarks before.
-- "Well," said I, "before you decide I have another to propose."
-- With it alone I can calculate the depth as we proceed; by its means alone I shall be able to decide when we have reached the centre of the earth.
-- It will, however, be easy to decide the matter by taking the bearings from our departure by means of the compass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have anticipated, mother, that I decide for my part, to abandon the business.
-- She is in Rome now; where probably we shall know more of her, as you decide to winter there.
-- Without presuming to decide where doctors disagreed, it did appear to Bar, viewing it as a question of common sense and not of so-called legal penetration, that this new system was might be, in the presence of so great an authority say, Humbug?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's like other people, you know, and I always envy girls who do such things, I'm so fond of luxury,' said Meg, trying to decide which of two shabby gowns was the least shabby.
-- 'We can't decide anything till he has been.'
-- said Amy, trying to decide how she would group the lovers in a sketch she was planning to make.
-- 'If she only had a servant or two it would be all right,' said Amy, coming out of the parlor, where she had been try-ing to decide whether the bronze Mercury looked best on the whatnot or the mantlepiece.
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