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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I will con-quer yet!Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say, 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!'
-- I fancy they follow in the lines the Kanaka missionary marked out, and have a kind of mockery of a rational life, poor beasts!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let that work perfectly, let it produce a sufficiency of everything, let every man be given a rational portion, greater or less according to his functional degree or magnitude, and then, provision made, let the devil supervene, let every man look after his own amusements and appetites, so long as he interfered with nobody.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- y principal endeavour was to learn the language, Mwhich my master (for so I shall henceforth call him), and his children, and every servant of his house, were desir-ous to teach me; for they looked upon it as a prodigy, that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational crea-ture.
-- He was extremely curious to know 'from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I exactly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, why don't they improve it, ma'am!It's the first consideration of a rational creature, and it's what they pretend to want.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this question I expected no rational answer.
-- I come to no absolute conclusion, but there is the man, surrounded by the works of his hands, his hatchets and his carved flints, which belong to the stony period; and the only rational supposition is, that, like myself, he visited the centre of the earth as a traveling tourist, a pioneer of science.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am rational again now, and you shall advise me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was the sense of freedom and independence which a rational animal may be supposed to feel when he sits on a table in an easy attitude smoking a pipe, swinging one leg carelessly to and fro, and having his boots cleaned all the time, without even the past trouble of having taken them off, or the prospective misery of putting them on, to disturb his reflections; or whether it was the goodness of the tobacco that soothed the feelings of the Dodger, or the mildness of the beer that mollified his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the nonce, with a spice of romance and enthusiasm, foreign to his general nature.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would surely be much more rational if conversa-tion instead of dancing were made the order of the day.'
-- Elizabeth allowed that he had given a very rational ac-count of it, and they continued talking together, with mutual satisfaction till supper put an end to cards, and gave the rest of the ladies their share of Mr. Wickham's atten-tions.
-- Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.'
-- And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten min-utes of every day in a rational manner.'
-- Their mutual affection will steady them; and I flatter myself they will settle so qui-etly, and live in so rational a manner, as may in time make their past imprudence forgotten.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostu-late with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miser-able; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
-- And here I must needs observe, that as rea-son is the substance and origin of the mathematics, so by stating and squaring everything by reason, and by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be, in time, master of every mechanic art.
-- For this purpose, after long consideration, I could think of but two ways to preserve them: one was, to find another convenient place to dig a cave underground, and to drive them into it every night; and the other was to enclose two or three little bits of land, remote from one another, and as much concealed as I could, where I might keep about half-a-dozen young goats in each place; so that if any disaster happened to the flock in general, I might be able to raise them again with little trouble and time: and this though it would require a good deal of time and labour, I thought was the most rational design.
-- Such certainly was the case of these men, of whom I could not so much as see room to suppose any were saved; nothing could make it rational so much as to wish or expect that they did not all perish there, except the possibil-ity only of their being taken up by another ship in company; and this was but mere possibility indeed, for I saw not the least sign or appearance of any such thing.
-- I mused for some time on what he had said, and found it was a very rational conclusion, and that therefore some-thing was to be resolved on speedily, as well to draw the men on board into some snare for their surprise as to pre-vent their landing upon us, and destroying us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
-- Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.
-- Edward was now fixed at the cottage at least for a week; for whatever other claims might be made on him, it was impossible that less than a week should be given up to the enjoyment of Elinor's company, or suffice to say half that was to be said of the past, the present, and the future; for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will despatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different.
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