improper是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不适当的； 不合理的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a most improper note, I call it; most improper for such an in-telligent, well-brought-up girl to write.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in these apartments that Mr Swiveller made use of the expressions above recorded for the consolation and encouragement of his desponding friend; and it may not be uninteresting or improper to remark that even these brief observations partook in a double sense of the figurative and poetical character of Mr Swiveller's mind, as the rosy wine was in fact represented by one glass of cold gin-and-water, which was replenished as occasion required from a bottle and jug upon the table, and was passed from one to another, in a scarcity of tumblers which, as Mr Swiveller's was a bachelor's establishment, may be acknowledged without a blush.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch frowned at Grinevitch's words, giving him thereby to understand that it was improper to pass judgment prematurely, and made him no reply.
-- Chapter 8 Alexey Alexandrovitch had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was sitting with Vronsky at a table apart, in eager conversation with him about something.
-- But he knew that by the etiquette of the race course it was not merely impossible for him to see the horse, but improper even to ask questions about him.
-- Chapter 12 Connected with the conversation that had sprung up on the rights of women there were certain questions as to the inequality of rights in marriage improper to discuss before the ladies.
-- Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pretended to kiss Madeline's mother, which vastly discomforted the poor lady; he sang a strongly improper Negro song containing the word hell; he maintained to a group of women graduate students that George Sand's affairs might perhaps be partially justified by their influence on men of talent; and when they looked shocked, he pranced a little, and his eyeglasses glittered.
-- Orchid sold three hundred and nineteen Y. tags, seven of them to the same man, who afterward made improper remarks to her.
-- For years she had seemed content to grow her roses, to make her startling hats, to almond-cream her lovely hands, and listen to her husband's improper stories--and for years she had been a lonely woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I hadnever even heard of the first remedy, and always had the second inthe closet, I gave Mrs. Crupp a glass of the second, which (that Imight have no suspicion of its being devoted to any improper use)she began to take in my presence.
-- He would shriek for help on the 638most improper occasions,- as when we had a little dinner-party, ora few friends in the evening,- and would come tumbling out of thekitchen, with iron missiles flying after him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She must have felt the improper and dangerous dis-tinction.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The killing was committed because he annoyed her daughter with improper advances.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, having accepted his gifts, shecould not summon courage enough to tell him his reputation made it improper for him to call on three lone women whohad no male protector.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why are you tearing about the streets,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'in this improper manner?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I beg Mr Dorrit to offer a thousand apologies and indeed they would be far too few for such an intrusion which I know must appear extremely bold in a lady and alone too, but I thought it best upon the whole however difficult and even apparently improper though Mr F.'s Aunt would have willingly accompanied me and as a character of great force and spirit would probably have struck one possessed of such a knowledge of life as no doubt with so many changes must have been acquired, for Mr F. himself said frequently that although well educated in the neighbourhood of Blackheath at as high as eighty guineas which is a good deal for parents and the plate kept back too on going away but that is more a meanness than its value that he had learnt more in his first years as a commercial traveller with a large commission on the sale of an article that nobody would hear of much less buy which preceded the wine trade a long time than in the whole six years in that academy conducted by a college Bachelor, though why a Bachelor more clever than a married man I do not see and never did but pray excuse me that is not the point.'
-- 'Painfully aware, Miss Dorrit, I am sure,' said Flora, 'that to propose an adjournment to any place to one so far removed by fortune and so courted and caressed by the best society must ever appear intruding even if not a pie-shop far below your present sphere and a back-parlour though a civil man but if for the sake of Arthur cannot overcome it more improper now than ever late Doyce and Clennam one last remark I might wish to make one last explanation I might wish to offer perhaps your good nature might excuse under pretence of three kidney ones the humble place of conversation.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And away went Meg to help 'that man' in his highly improper employment.
-- She lis-tened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that 'Tom Brown was a brick,' regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bearlike but affec-tionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope,' stammered Mr. Limbkins: 'I hope the magistrates will not form the opinion that the authorities have been guilty of any improper conduct, on the unsupported testimony of a child.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed he has no improper pride.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island; and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this, and what kind of dwelling to make - whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or a tent upon the earth; and, in short, I resolved upon both; the manner and description of which, it may not be improper to give an account of.
-- But as this is usually the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it is as commonly the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time - so it was with me now; and yet so deep had the mis-take taken root in my temper, that I could not satisfy myself in my station, but was continually poring upon the means and possibility of my escape from this place; and that I may, with greater pleasure to the reader, bring on the remaining part of my story, it may not be improper to give some ac-count of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape, and how, and upon what foundation, I acted.
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