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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very suf-ficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any defi-ciency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
-- Mr. Martin is a very respectable young man, but I cannot admit him to be Har-riet's equal; and am rather surprized indeed that he should have ventured to address her.
-- She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations.
-- Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution a fine January morning, when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully-disposed people wish for more, and an occasional gleam of silvery sunshine, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the house of Mrs. Hurst, the aunt George, the dog walking behind, with a countenance of great concern at the serious turn pastoral affairs seemed to be taking.
-- Well, a very good-hearted man were Farmer Everdene, and I being a respectable young fellow was allowed to call and see her and drink as much ale as I liked, but not to carry away any outside my skin I mane of course."
-- "For any lover of hers might have come to the house if he had been a respectable lad.
-- If there had been a respectable minority on either side, the case would have been most natural.
-- proclaiming beyond the shade of a doubt that these phenomena were the features and persons of Daisy, Whitefoot, Bonny-lass, Jolly-O, Spot, Twinkle-eye, etc., etc. the respectable dairy of Devon cows belonging to Bathsheba aforesaid.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.
-- "The mud splashes you as you drive through it in your carriage--you are a respectable person; you go afoot and are splashed--you are a scoundrel.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It made her feel more respectable andladylike.
-- She wasseldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made hasteto cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote, however, to Mr. Trabb by next day's post, to say that Mr. Pip must decline to deal further with one who could so far forget what he owed to the best interests of society, as to employ a boy who excited Loathing in every respectable mind.
-- There being to my knowledge a respectable lodging-house in Essex Street, the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost within hail of my windows, I first of all repaired to that house, and was so fortunate as to secure the second floor for my uncle, Mr. Provis.
-- "The house with the bow-window," said Wemmick, "being by the river-side, down the Pool there between Limehouse and Greenwich, and being kept, it seems, by a very respectable widow who has a furnished upper floor to let, Mr. Herbert put it to me, what did I think of that as a temporary tenement for Tom, Jack, or Richard?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: 'We will not so much as touch one fly's leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!'
-- Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad 80 Grimms' Fairy Talestravelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: how-ever, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome sup-per, and spent the evening very jollily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
-- Lastly, she was guardian over a little armoury of cutlasses and carbines, arrayed in vengeful order above one of the official chimney-pieces; and over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a place of business claiming to be wealthy a row of fire-buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders.
-- He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mrs Finching has been telling me, sir,' said Arthur, after making his acknowledgments; the relict of the late Mr F. meanwhile protesting, with a gesture, against his use of that respectable name; 'that she hopes occasionally to employ the young needlewoman you recommended to my mother.
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