moderate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 适度的, 适中的; n. 稳健的人, 政治上温 和派; vt. /vi. 缓和, 节制;，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：
-- So Tvery great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridic-ulous exaggeration.
-- His scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conducting ingenious experiments, brought him otherwise into moderate request, and he earned as much as he wanted.
-- Sydney Carton, who, with Mr. Lorry, had been lost in amazement at this turn of the business, here requested Mr. Cruncher to moderate and explain himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course; it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
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：
-- Warming up, Katerina Ivanovna proceeded to enlarge on the peaceful and happy life they would lead in T , on the gymnasium teachers whom she would engage to give lessons in her boarding-school, one a most respect-able old Frenchman, one Mangot, who had taught Katerina Ivanovna herself in old days and was still living in T , and would no doubt teach in her school on moderate terms.
-- But in the first place, everybody does so in one way or another, and in the sec-ond place, of course, one ought to be moderate and prudent, however mean it may be, but what am I to do?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reminding him of the fact, that Mr. Peggotty derived asteady, though certainly a very moderate income from the bequestof his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.
-- Emma, my love,' said Mr. Micawber, clearinghis throat in his magnificent way, 'my friend Mr. Thomas Traddlesis so obliging as to solicit, in my ear, that he should have theprivilege of ordering the ingredients necessary to the composition 742of a moderate portion of that Beverage which is peculiarlyassociated, in our minds, with the Roast Beef of Old England.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where a man does his best 136 Emmawith only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
-- To provide for her otherwise was out of Colonel Campbell's power; for though his income, by pay and appointments, was handsome, his fortune was moderate and must be all his daughter's; but, by giving her an education, he hoped to be supplying the means of respectable subsistence here-after.
-- They continued together with unabated re-gard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted; and was eligibly and happily set-tled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn.
-- Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
-- Bathsheba is only playing with you: you are too poor for her as I said; so give up wasting your time about a great match you'll never make for a moderate and rightful match you may make to-morrow; take up your carpet-bag, turn about, leave Weatherbury now, this night, and you shall take fifty pounds with you.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a consider-able sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, re-finement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a moderate computation, it was many months, that Sunday, since I had left Joe and Biddy.
-- This collation disposed of at a moderate price (considering the grease, which was not charged for), we went back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau, and then took coach for Hammersmith.
-- Here, after gradually failing in loftier hopes, he had "read" with divers who had lacked opportunities or neglected them, and had refurbished divers others for special occasions, and had turned his acquirements to the account of literary compilation and correction, and on such means, added to some very moderate private resources, still maintained the house I saw.
-- The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
-- While he was drinking his moderate allowance, he said, with nothing to lead up to it, and after having appeared rather fidgety,--"What do you think of my meaning to take a holiday on Monday, Mr.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when my uncle came to understand that they were Danish miles, of eight thousand yards each, he was obliged to be more moderate in his ideas, and, considering the horrible roads we had to follow, to allow eight or ten days for the journey.
-- Until now, all the peculiar conditions of refractory rocks, of electricity, of magnetism, had modified the general laws of nature, and had created for us a moderate temperature; for the theory of the central fire, remained, in my eyes, the only explainable one.
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