honest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 诚实的， 正直的， 老实的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's dear old honest Ali Baba.
-- What an honest expression it has in its face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jerry, you honest tradesman, it wouldn't suit YOUR line of business!Re-called !Bust me if I don't think he'd been a drinking!'
-- said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, 'if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing 77and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call.
-- It could scarcely be called a trade, in spite of his favourite description of himself as 'a honest tradesman.'
-- Much better,' said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, 'than I, as a honest trades-man, wish to know the Bailey.'
-- That, it was certain the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of pass-ing and repassing between France and England, on secret business of which he could give no honest account.
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：
-- Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
-- ''Yes, and how they all grew up to be honest people, and were beloved by everybody.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's such a true, honest nature, and a heart of gold.
-- "If you admit that it is a benefit," said Sergey Ivanovitch, "then, as an honest man, you cannot help caring about it and sympathizing with the movement, and so wishing to work for it."
-- But apart from that, a challenge to fight would be an act hardly honest on my side.
-- "An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait."
-- "But you have not drawn the line between honest and dishonest work.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
-- Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.
-- Don't you see, the description which you have there has a singular resemblance to an honest man?"
-- "Consul," remarked the detective, dogmatically, "great robbers always resemble honest folks.
-- The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it's no light task, I admit, but a real art."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left them triumphantly, and Martin groaned, "Ira makes me want to get out of medicine and be an honest harness maker."
-- "It wouldn't hurt you any!I do respect honest labor.
-- They dined together twice in two weeks, and only twice in that time, though she telephoned to him, did Martin see his honest affianced, Madeline.
-- He had seen Hesselink only once, but everywhere he heard of him as the most honest practitioner in the Valley.
-- When he was altogether sure that the vaccine did not contain living blackleg organisms, he was much more delighted than if he had found that good Mr. Dawson Hunziker was producing honest vaccine.
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