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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To a solitary individual, a little troop of eight men, all mounted and well armed, wore a suspicious aspect, so that any intercourse either with honest men or even banditti, was almost impossible.
-- "They scampered off too quick for honest folks," said McNabbs.
-- At last he began to despair of success, and began sorrowfully to retrace his steps back to his father's palace, when one day he heard an honest peasant singing so merrily as he drove the plow, that he thought, ‘Surely this man is happy, if there is such a thing as happiness on earth.'
-- Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.
-- He left the room immediately to fetch his official document, and, though hardly absent a minute, Paddy O'Moore managed to say, "My Lord, you may trust Ayrton; I vouch for his being an honest man.
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：
-- Watson, Watson, if you are an honest man you will record this also and set it against my successes!'
-- That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman, and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband, but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course we will settle this little matter another time, and if you are the upright, honest man you look, I anticipate very little trouble between us on that score.
-- There are uncommonly few honest peo-ple about, prince; there isn't one honester than Ptitsin, he's the best of the lot.
-- You don't know, per-haps, that blackguards like honest people, and being one myself I like you.
-- There are terribly few honest people here, and hardly any whom one can respect, although people put on airs Varia especially!Have you noticed, prince, how many adventurers there are nowadays?
-- Look at my father, the general!See what he is, and yet, I assure you, he is an honest man!Only ... he drinks too much, and his morals are not all we could desire.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achae-ans, who still held on; and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am not a prejudiced man, nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges, though the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white,' the scout replied, surveying, with secret satisfaction, the faded color of his bony and sinewy hand, 'and I am will-ing to own that my people have many ways, of which, as an honest man, I can't approve.
-- 'No honest man will deny it,' said the scout, a little net-tled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; 'and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.
-- It is not every man who can speak the English tongue that is an honest subject.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Convention to say: "You shall not better your situation save by honest labour."
-- If honest labour be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Honest INJUN, I will.
-- 'I will, sir, I will, honest but don't leave us, please.
-- Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
-- He says: 'I was your father's friend, and I'm your friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an honest one that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel and have nothing to do with him, the ignorant tramp, with his idiotic Greek and Hebrew, as he calls it.
-- 'Honest injun,' says I.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone: "If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade, so that you can earn an honest living?"
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