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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, upon his father's marriage, it was very generally proposed, as a most proper attention, that the visit should take place.
-- She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engaging not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk and yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.
-- It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object.
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- No doubt he is a sensible man, and I suppose may have a natural talent for thinks strongly and clearly and when he takes a pen in hand, his thoughts naturally find proper words.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character.
-- A summer eve and loneliness would have been necessary to give the meeting its proper fulness of romance.
-- Jacob, on receiving the order to see if the liquor was warm enough, placidly dipped his forefinger into it by way of thermometer, and having pronounced it nearly of the proper degree, raised the cup and very civilly attempted to dust some of the ashes from the bottom with the skirt of his smock-frock, because Shepherd Oak was a stranger.
-- Well you have to get proper clothes."
-- This was eaten on the plateless system, which is performed by placing a slice of bread upon the table, the meat flat upon the bread, a mustard plaster upon the meat, and a pinch of salt upon the whole, then cutting them vertically downwards with a large pocket-knife till wood is reached, when the severed lump is impaled on the knife, elevated, and sent the proper way of food.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to re-late, in proper detail, to my recollection.
-- But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his prop-erties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And ordering French and German books by the crate fromthe Yankees!And there they sit reading and dreaming the dear God knows what, when they'd be better spending theirtime hunting and playing poker as proper men should."
-- He swaggered among the tall O'Haras like a struttingbantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionately to hear him roar andhammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary to keep a baby brother in his proper place.
-- Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romancethat his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover.
-- And, of course, you alwaysblushed on such occasions, otherwise they would pinch you with more pleasure than was proper and then tell their sonsthat you were fast.
-- she cried as she caught a glimpse of herself and saw that her red lips were indeed in the proper pose for akiss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,--as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,--and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.
-- Am I answered that you are ready to be placed at once under some proper tutor?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus the spell was broken, and all who had been turned into stones awoke, and took their proper forms.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation toyourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.
-- I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
-- But the colo-nel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized, and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them bound into my hands; which some of his soldiers accordingly did, push-ing them forward with the butt-ends of their pikes into my reach.
-- He desired 'I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me sever-al weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.'
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