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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They originated in the slopes of the Buffalo Ranges, a chain of mountains of moderate height, the undulating line of which was visible on the horizon.
-- A moderate breeze was blowing from the southwest.
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：
-- 'A moderate walk along this moor-path brings us to Mer-ripit House,' said he.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man was of a moderate size, and with a black negroid face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It should be effected during the night, with a northwest wind of moderate force, and the aeronauts calculated that they would reach General Lee's camp in a few hours.
-- The balloon, inflated on the great square of Richmond, was ready to depart on the first abatement of the wind, and, as may be supposed, the impatience among the besieged to see the storm moderate was very great.
-- The place where they had halted was wider, so as to form a cavern of moderate dimensions.
-- There were deodars, Douglas firs, casuarinas, gum trees, eucalypti, hibiscus, cedars, and other trees, generally of a moderate size, for their number prevented their growth.
-- The one which had been seized in the hall of Granite House was a great fellow, six feet high, with an admirably poportioned frame, a broad chest, head of a moderate size, the facial angle reaching sixty-five degrees, round skull, projecting nose, skin covered with soft glossy hair, in short, a fine specimen of the anthropoids.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time elapsed before she could reassure her trembling companion, or restore him to a state of moderate tranquillity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford collected very modern pictures, at very moderate prices.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do indeed think so,' returned Clennam, in most emphatic recognition of this very moderate expectation.
-- Mr Baptist, sole lodger of Mr and Mrs Plornish was reputed in whispers to lay by the savings which were the result of his simple and moderate life, for investment in one of Mr Merdle's certain enterprises.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist.
-- Moreover, at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale, but of moderate size, by no means of the full-grown magnitude of my friend King Tranquo's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On being excluded, the old ladies changed their tone, and cried through the keyhole that old Sally was drunk; which, indeed, was not unlikely; since, in addition to a moderate dose of opium prescribed by the apothecary, she was labouring under the effects of a final taste of gin-and-water which had been privily administered, in the openness of their hearts, by the worthy old ladies themselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every girl in or near Meryton was out of her senses about him for the first two months; but he never distin-guished HER by any particular attention; and, consequently, after a moderate period of extravagant and wild admiration, her fancy for him gave way, and others of the regiment, who treated her with more distinction, again became her favou-rites.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe.
-- "And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet had what was a help in his business, a moderate sense of humour, and could tell a good story when the occasion required.
-- The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown all moderate incomes in obscurity.
-- He contented himself with a very moderate allowance of personal apparel, and rarely suggested anything for Carrie.
-- He wanted some one young, active, and glad to work actively for a moderate sum.
-- Now came another moderate hand, and again he tried to open the jack-pot on it.
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