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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Shall we find a respectable hotel there?"
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：
-- So far as I know, he and his wife are as respectable a couple as any in the county.'
-- Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact was, Totski was at that time a man of fifty years of age; his position was solid and respectable; his place in society had long been firmly fixed upon safe foundations; he loved himself, his personal comforts, and his position better than all the world, as every respectable gentleman should!
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- A strange rumour began to circulate, meanwhile; no less than that the respectable and highly respected General Ep-anchin was himself so fascinated by Nastasia Philipovna that his feeling for her amounted almost to passion.
-- Fancy, he was a decent, respectable man once!He was received in the best society; he was not always the liar he is now.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His had always been a most respectable house in a disreputable neighbourhood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Crew,' continued the captain, 'clean, respectable crew.'
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：
-- The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.
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：
-- It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Kit's mother had done speaking, the old lady struck in again, and said that she was quite sure she was a very honest and very respectable person or she never would have expressed herself in that manner, and that certainly the appearance of the children and the cleanliness of the house deserved great praise and did her the utmost credit, whereat Kit's mother dropped a curtsey and became consoled.
-- Mr Swiveller explained that his respectable friend had recently accepted a responsible situation in a locomotive gaming-house, and was at that time absent on a professional tour among the adventurous spirits of Great Britain.
-- 'I saw one a stout pencil-case of respectable appearance but as he was in company with an elderly penknife, and a young toothpick with whom he was in earnest conversation, I felt a delicacy in speaking to him.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, my dear; there was a respectable man in our village, and he----" "Have you spoken to him of my case?"
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It isn't respectable to beg,' said the King.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They go the rounds of all the respectable houses, and receive contributions every Christmas, and we esteemed it a first rate treat to hear them.
-- Your brother will be pleased; the old lady and gentleman will not object, I think; you will escape from a disorderly, comfortless home into a wealthy, respectable one; and you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.
-- There were twelve families here, respectable enough, but nothing like the Vances.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feel- ing, than to stoop to this business, and make him-self a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody.
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