respectable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可敬的； 人格高尚的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.
-- It won't do for a respectable bank gentleman like you, to be seen speaking to him publicly, you know.'
-- Find out some respectable woman with a little property somebody in the landlady way, or lodging-letting way and marry her, against a rainy day.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the heart of a most respectable rich man, whose name is certain to be found in the Directory.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I consent, count, and am ready to overlook it; but you perceive that my wife--my wife's a respectable woman --his been exposed to the persecution, and insults, and effrontery of young upstarts, scoundrels....' And you must understand, the young upstarts are present all the while, and I have to keep the peace between them.
-- As is indeed not unfrequent with women of unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of respectable existence, at a distance she not only excused illicit love, she positively envied it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were Mr. Fogg's usual partners at whist: Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England all rich and highly respectable personages, even in a club which comprises the princes of English trade and finance.
-- The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr. Fogg's project as madness; the Daily Telegraph alone hesitatingly supported him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hundred times had Martin obediently looked at the specimens in the brown, crackly-varnished bookcase: the beetles and chunks of mica; the embryo of a two-headed calf, the gallstones removed from a respectable lady whom the Doc enthusiastically named to all visitors.
-- He still seemed pale, in contrast to his black smooth hair, but he was a respectable runner, a fair basket- ball center, and a savage hockey-player.
-- By any canon of respectable behavior he should have felt like a low dog; he assured himself that he must feel like a low dog; but he could not bring it off.
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
-- For the first time that evening, Martin managed to put a respectable heartiness into his "Enjoyed that s' much."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was something respectable and like an of-ficial about his manner too.
-- Do you suppose that a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work?
-- Not fifteen farthings a day can she earn, if she is respectable and has no special tal-ent and that without putting her work down for an instant!
-- Then there will be the hospital di-rectly (that's always the luck of those girls with respectable mothers, who go wrong on the sly) and then 芒聙娄 again the hospital 芒聙娄 drink 芒聙娄 the taverns 芒聙娄 and more hospital, in two or three years a wreck, and her life over at eighteen or nineteen芒聙娄.
-- '芒聙娄 So I tell you this, most respectable Luise Ivanovna, and I tell it you for the last time,' the assistant went on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Or if the poor child, his mother, had been alive, hewould still have gone into the respectable business, would he?'
-- To have imposed any derogatory work uponhim, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of amost respectable man.
-- Hetook out of his pocket the most respectable hunting-watch I eversaw, and preventing the spring with his thumb from opening far,looked in at the face as if he were consulting an oracular oyster,shut it up again, and said, if I pleased, it was half-past eight.
-- Every morning we held exactly this conversation: never any more,and never any less; and yet, invariably, however far I might havebeen lifted out of myself overnight, and advanced towards matureryears, by Steerforth's companionship, or Mrs. Steerforth'sconfidence, or Miss Dartle's conversation, in the presence of thismost respectable man, I became, as our smaller poets sing, 'a boyagain.'
-- I had no reason to believe that Littimer understood sucharts himself, he never led me to suppose anything of the kind, byso much as the vibration of one of his respectable eye-lashes; yetwhenever he was by, while we were practising, I felt myself thegreenest and most inexperienced of mortals.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have no doubt of his being a very respectable young man.
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