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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I leave you, then, my friends, to decide whether all these probabilities, not to say certainties, are not in favor of the Australian continent."
-- In less than five minutes they were at the top of the mountain, and then they turned to judge of their position, and decide on a route that would baffle their pursuers.
-- And now that their hunger was appeased, it was time to decide on their plan of escape.
-- We have to decide now on what island of the Pacific Ocean you are to be left?"
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：
-- It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought he would decide this question once for all in these last three minutes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us for this day cease fighting; hereafter we will fight anew till heaven decide between us, and give victory to one or to the other; night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid.
-- At daybreak let Idaeus go to the ships, and tell Agamem-non and Menelaus sons of Atreus the saying of Alexandrus through whom this quarrel has come about; and let him also be instant with them that they now cease fighting till we burn our dead; hereafter we will fight anew, till heaven decide between us and give victory to one or to the other.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the time the lecture ended and the au-dience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper), and was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide wheth-er the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- you cannot examine them closely enough to decide upon their merit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I must not decide on my own performance.'
-- Pardon me for neglecting to prof-it by your advice, which on every other subject shall be my constant guide, though in the case before us I consider my-self more fitted by education and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like yourself.'
-- 'You must decide for yourself,' said Elizabeth; 'and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you by all means to refuse him.'
-- 'I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgement alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass," replied Elinor, "and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid.
-- A short, a very short time however must now decide what Willoughby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town.
-- But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
-- I was to decide on the best of them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to think about it--to ponder over it, to decide whether it were best.
-- Then he would decide to make the best of it, and would begin to do so by starting the whole inquiry over again.
-- We shan't decide for a few days yet.
-- How successful she was--how much money she must have!Even now, however, it took a severe run of ill luck to decide him to appeal to her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By and by he said he had ciphered out two or three ways, but there warn't no need to decide on any of them yet.
-- By and by he said he'd struck so many good ones he didn't hardly know which to take, but there was one which he reckoned he'd decide on.
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