rational是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有推理能力的, 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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Better to be a rational creature,' he added then, after ringing a small bell on the table, 'and accept your natural destiny.
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：
-- The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the nec-essary free respiration.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you call that a rational system?"
-- This did not interest Levin, but when he had finished, Levin went back to his first position, and, addressing Sviazhsky, and trying to draw him into expressing his serious opinion:- "That the standard of culture is falling, and that with our present relations to the peasants there is no possibility of famling on a rational system to yield a profit--that's perfectly true," said he.
-- "I mix with all the neighboring landowners, who are cultivating their land on a rational system; they all, with rare exceptions, are doing so at a loss.
-- "He's right that our system, that's to say of rational farming, doesn't answer, that the only thing that answers is the money-lender system, like that meek-looking gentleman's, or else the very simplest.... Whose fault is it?"
-- The people are at such a low stage of rational and moral development, that it's obvious they're bound to oppose everything that's strange to them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
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：
-- Meanwhile it would seem, as regards the moral question, that his analy-sis was complete; his casuistry had become keen as a razor, and he could not find rational objections in himself.
-- Far as he was from being capable of rational reflection at that moment, he felt that no one would behave like that with a person who was going to be arrested.
-- Of course, in the future society there will be no need of assets, but her part will have another sig-nificance, rational and in harmony with her environment.
-- 'You always have been a very rational person and you've never been mad, never,' he observed suddenly with warmth.
-- From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that's only from the rational point of view you can't help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your sister, Betsey Trotwood,' said my aunt, 'wouldhave been as natural and rational a girl as ever breathed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.
-- Mr. Woodhouse's peculiarities and fidgetiness were some-times provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill-bestowed.
-- With men he can be rational and un-affected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.'
-- It was easy to decide that she was still too young; and Jane remained with them, sharing, as another daugh-ter, in all the rational pleasures of an elegant society, and a judicious mixture of home and amusement, with only the drawback of the future, the sobering suggestions of her own good understanding to remind her that all this might soon be over.
-- With the fortitude of a devoted no-vitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
-- In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational crea-ture and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
-- Upon this imagination, he put several other questions to me, and still received rational answers: no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases which I had learned at the farmer's house, and did not suit the polite style of a court.
-- And, as truth always forces its way into rational minds, so this honest worthy gentleman, who had some tincture of learning, and very good sense, was immediately convinced of my candour and veracity.
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