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：
-- 'A very good name, and, I dare say, handed down from honest forefathers.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
-- There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds, and the golden- winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gor-get, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chat-tering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker; but there was no reason to waste one's time over him.
-- If she had any sense of humour, it must amuse her that he should place her on a pedestal and worship her with such an honest idolatry, but even while she laughed she must have been pleased and touched.
-- "The dear soul thought she was doing a wonderful thing for me when she made me an artist, but perhaps, after all, it would have been better for me if my father's will had prevailed and I were now but an honest carpenter."
-- But Stroeve, the unconquerable buffoon, had a love and an understanding of beauty which were as honest and sincere as was his own sincere and honest soul.
-- Sooner or later he would marry some honest soul in Holland, and I felt sure he would be happy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after having with a penetrating eye observed the open face of the sailor, he was convinced that he had before him an honest man.
-- This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.
-- The honest sailor did not hide his regret at being reduced for dinner to the singing pheasants, but fortune once more showed itself obliging to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can say that, with a true and honest heart, any way.
-- 'I tell you, ma'am,' said Mr Witherden, 'what I think as an honest man, which, as the poet observes, is the noblest work of God.
-- The mountainous Alps on the one hand, or a humming-bird on the other, is nothing, in point of workmanship, to an honest man or woman or woman.'
-- CHAPTER 15Often, while they were yet pacing the silent streets of the town on the morning of their departure, the child trembled with a mingled sensation of hope and fear as in some far-off figure imperfectly seen in the clear distance, her fancy traced a likeness to honest Kit.
-- The child, sitting down with the old man close behind it, had been thinking how strange it was that horses who were such fine honest creatures should seem to make vagabonds of all the men they drew about them, when a loud laugh at some extemporaneous witticism of Mr Short's, having allusion to the circumstances of the day, roused her from her meditation and caused her to look around.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The usher was an honest man, with a university education, but he could not hold any employment on account of his tippling habit.
-- She was raised in an intelligent, noble family, and could make her living by honest toil, but she leaves them, yields to her passions, and displays an intelligence, and especially, as you have heard here, gentlemen of the jury, an ability to exert influence on people by that mysterious, lately discovered by science, especially by the school of Charcot, power known by the name of hypnotic suggestion.
-- The twenty-five hundred rubles could have been earned by two hard working and honest persons, who were receiving in tips three to four rubles a day from guests.
-- Judging by his speech and manner, his was a story of a simple, honest peasant, and it seemed very strange to Nekhludoff to hear it from the lips of a prisoner in the garb of disgrace and in prison.
-- "An altruistic, honest person," said Vera Efremovna.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman," said my mother.
-- They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the Hispaniola belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high the most transparent calumnies.
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