proper是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 适合的； 合乎体统的； 固有的； 有礼貌的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is not your proper occupation.
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：
-- All seemed to him in proper order as usual; it was East Street, splendid and elegant as we now see it.
-- Meanwhile he was haunted by the idea he should like to possess such a pair of spectacles himself; then, perhaps, by using them circumspectly, one would be able to look into people's hearts, which, he thought, would be far more in-teresting than merely to see what was to happen next year; for that we should all know in proper time, but the other never.
-- 'You are right,' said the shadow, who was now the proper master.
-- But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor and he must be so to answer well he must be treated quite like a man.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How is it they don't take proper precautions?"
-- And their impoverishment is not due to extravagance--that would be nothing; living in good style --that's the proper thing for noblemen; it's only the nobles who know how to do it.
-- There were no proper cupboards for their clothes; what cupboards there were either would not close at all, or burst open whenever anyone passed by them.
-- Here, he feels in his proper place.
-- But he felt helpless; he knew beforehand that every one was against him, and that he would not be allowed to do what seemed to him now so natural and right, but would be forced to do what was wrong, though it seemed the proper thing to them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this important Nebraska town.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From him a future physician could learn that most important of all things: the proper drugs to give a patient, particularly when you cannot discover what is the matter with him.
-- In the taxi-cab he tried to think of the proper things to say to a celebrity.
-- Proper recommendations were desired.
-- Through the prayer Martin sat with his forehead in his hand, feeling foolish, and raving, "I guess this is the proper attitude-- they're all gawping at me--gosh, won't he ever quit?--oh, damn it, now what was that point I was going to make about fumigation?--oh, Lord, he's winding up and I've got to shoot!"
-- The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted; the tangled grass was a garden of roses, the ragged grape-arbor a shrine to Diana, the old hammock turned to fringed cloth of silver, the bad-tempered and sputtering lawn-sprinkler a fountain, and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.
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：
-- he cried triumphantly, fitting it on, 'just your size!A proper head-covering is the first thing in dress and a recommendation in its own way.
-- And if you must examine me, do so in the proper form!I will not allow you to do so otherwise, and so meanwhile, good-bye, as we have evidently nothing to keep us now.'
-- I've certainly missed my proper career.
-- But at last the High Court of Appeal went into it and the poor fellow was acquitted and put under proper care.
-- Katerina Ivanovna, however, put off expressing her feel-ings for the time and contented herself with treating her coldly, though she decided inwardly that she would cer-tainly have to put Amalia Ivanovna down and set her in her proper place, for goodness only knew what she was fancying herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My stars!Butgive me leave to ask you, Mr. What's-your-name'; and here Mr.Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and madesuch a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visiblebelow them; 'whether, when you talk about favourites, youshowed proper respect to me?
-- Him!Such an old friend!Bless your soul, when I was nothingbut a clerk in his office, Copperfield, I've seen him twenty times, ifI've seen him once, quite in a taking about it- quite put out- youknow (and very proper in him as a father; I'm sure I can't blamehim), to think that Miss Agnes was mixing herself up with whatoughtn't to be.'
-- Her mother'sremonstrance always was, 'Now, my dear Annie, I am sure youknow better; and I must tell you, my love, that you are not makinga proper return for the kindness of Doctor Strong.'
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