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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you suppose that a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work?
-- She undertook such jobs and was frequently employed, as she was very honest and always fixed a fair price and stuck to it.
-- Though I've been calling them all sorts of names just now, I do respect them all 芒聙娄 though I don't respect Zametov, I like him, for he is a puppy, and that bullock Zossimov, because he is an honest man and knows his work.
-- Her face was always more serious and thoughtful than gay; but how well smiles, how well youthful, lighthearted, irresponsible, laughter suited her face!It was natural enough that a warm, open, simple-hearted, honest giant like Razumihin, who had never seen anyone like her and was not quite sober at the time, should lose his head immediately.
-- Wheth-er it is the lack of public interest, or whether it is we are so honest we don't want to deceive one another, I don't know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That honest creature was in deep affliction, I remember, and musthave become quite buttonless on the occasion; for a little volley ofthose explosives went off when, after having made it up with mymother, she kneeled down by the elbow-chair, and made it up withme.
-- The kind soul promised, and we both of us kissed the keyhole withthe greatest affection- I patted it with my hand, I recollect, as if ithad been her honest faceand parted.
-- His honest eyes fire up, andsparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright.
-- The idea of being again surrounded by those honest faces, 133shining welcome on me; of renewing the peacefulness of the sweetSunday morning, when the bells were ringing, the stones droppingin the water, and the shadowy ships breaking through the mist; ofroaming up and down with little Em'ly, telling her my troubles,and finding charms against them in the shells and pebbles on thebeach; made a calm in my heart.
-- Being a very honest little creature, and unwilling to disgrace thememory I was going to leave behind me at Murdstone andGrinby's, I considered myself bound to remain until Saturdaynight; and, as I had been paid a week's wages in advance when Ifirst came there, not to present myself in the counting-house at theusual hour, to receive my stipend.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was some days before she saw Jane Fairfax, to judge of her honest regret in this woeful change; but when they did meet, her composure was odious.
-- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fair-ly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situa-tion, low and sheltered its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up. The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many com-436 Emmafortable, and one or two handsome rooms. It was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding. Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak sighed a deep honest sigh none the less so in that, being like the sigh of a pine plantation, it was rather noticeable as a disturbance of the atmosphere.
-- "Benjy Pennyways were not a true man or an honest baily as big a betrayer as Judas Iscariot himself.
-- "Well, 'tis an honest deed, and we thank ye for it, Pennyways," said Joseph; to which opinion the remainder of the company subscribed unanimously.
-- The truth was, that as she now stood excited, wild, and honest as the day her alluring beauty bore out so fully the epithets he had bestowed upon it that he was quite startled at his temerity in advancing them as false.
-- She delayed the reply, but was too honest to withhold it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer was wont to confine her attention to events, and did not go very deeply into the causes that brought them about; she likewise preferred to throw the blame of her own mistakes on other people, so she chose to consider that the honest vermicelli maker was responsible for her misfortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Years before, he had so insulted her that now Miss Pitty never spokeof him except in guarded whispers and with so great reticence that a stranger would have thought the honest old lawyera murderer, at the least.
-- "Oh, I knew Yankees were vile but I didn't know " "Why quibble about the Yankees earning an honest penny selling out the Union?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And last of all, Pip,--and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap,--I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
-- Of course, as an honest man, you will expect no other and no more."
-- And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
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