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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Priam bade me inquire further if you will cease fighting till we burn our dead; hereafter we will fight anew, till heaven decide between us and give vic-tory to one or to the other.'
-- I will wager you a tripod or cauldron, and Agamemnon son of Atreus shall decide whose horses are first.
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：
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- Give him another gun, and place us face to face, without cover or dodge, and let Providence, and our own eyes, decide the matter atween us!I do not make the offer, to you, major; for our blood is of a color, and we serve the same master.'
-- No horse*,' continued the scout, shaking his head, like one who mused; 'horse, I am ashamed to say must sooner or later decide these scrimmages.
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：
-- "The only thing is to decide what is the best thing to do."
-- I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
-- "You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied.
-- And at the end of a month, if you decide you want to marry her, you can just go and settle down on her property.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "All the same, captain," said the sailor, "if we ever decide to leave the island, it won't be in a balloon, will it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We will decide to stop here if you please,' said Nell, turning hastily to the landlord.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff was requested to return and establish his right to the inheritance and also to decide on the future management of the estates; whether the same system of letting out to the peasants, which prevailed during the lifetime of his mother, was to be continued, or, as the steward had strongly advised the deceased Princess, and now advised the young Prince, to augment the stock and work all the land himself.
-- "Even the drivers know of my relations to the Korchagins," thought Nekhludoff, and the unsolved question which continually occupied his mind of late--whether or not he ought to marry Princess Korchagin--again occurred to him, and, like most questions that he was called upon to decide at that time, it remained unsolved.
-- But Timon was so respectful, and at the same time so rigid; he so strictly insisted on himself pouring the water from the pitcher over Nekhludoff's hands, that the latter could not decide to ask him about Katiousha, and only inquired about his grand-children, about the old stallion, about the watch-dog Polkan.
-- "That does not decide the question," said the clerk.
-- Nekhludoff continued, saying that the income from the land should be distributed among all, and he therefore proposed that they take the land and pay into the common treasury such rent as they may decide upon, such money to be used for their own benefit.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll bear it in mind," said Silver with an accent so curious that I could not, for the life of me, decide whether he were laughing at my request or had been favourably affected by my courage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians.
-- Besides, I trusted to the future to decide this grave question.
-- The future would decide that.
-- How, then, could we decide whether we had reached the pole?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It doesn't rest with me to decide on their existence.
-- "But how are you going to decide this for a nation?"
-- Gerald watched him warily, carefully, rather calculatingly, for he could not decide what he was after.
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