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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His majesty approved of the proposal, and I took them up, one by one, in my hands, ready mounted and armed, with the proper officers to exercise them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will observe your very proper request.
-- Having now asserted my independence in a proper manner, I may come to how do you find yourself, and I hope you're pretty well.'
-- Mr. Bounderby silently gazed about him for some moments, in every direction except Mrs. Sparsit's direction; and then, abruptly turning upon the niece of Lady Scadgers, said to that wretched woman:'Now, ma'am!We shall be happy to hear any little apology you may think proper to offer, for going about the country at express pace, with no other luggage than a Cock-and-a-Bull, ma'am!'
-- Mrs. Sparsit first elevated, then knitted, her Coriolanian eyebrows; gathered up her work into its proper basket; and rose.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle had great difficulty in making them accept a sufficient and proper remuneration.
-- "While we are about it, it will certainly be only proper to discover all the secrets of this extraordinary region."
-- There was not a single parcel but what was in its proper place.
-- There could be now no doubt that we had chanced upon the road once followed by Saknussemm, but instead of going down in a proper manner, we had, through our own imprudence, drawn a whole sea with us!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if you had...' 'If you HAVE the proper sort of emotion or sympathy with a woman, you OUGHT to sleep with her,' said May.
-- 'Then let's leave it all alone, and just be decent and simple, like proper human beings with one another.
-- And then, being so still and alone, she seemed to bet into the current of her own proper destiny.
-- 'But where will you find the proper engines for burning your fuel?'
-- So I stopped talking ''fine'', as they call it, talking proper English, and went back to talking broad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing about him in the way of decoration but a watch, which was lowered into the depths of its proper pocket by an old black ribbon, and had a tarnished copper key moored above it, to show where it was sunk.
-- He had fully convinced himself, notwithstanding, that his own proper share of the Fund was three and ninepence a week; and that in this amount he, as an individual collegian, was swindled by the marshal, regularly every Monday.
-- Such formalities as are required to be observed in so doing, may be known on application to the proper branch of that Department.'
-- 'Which is the proper branch?'
-- 'You industrious little fairy,' returned Flora, taking, in another cup of tea, another of the doses prescribed by her medical man, 'there's not the slightest hurry and it's better that we should begin by being confidential about our mutual friend too cold a word for me at least I don't mean that, very proper expression mutual friend than become through mere formalities not you but me like the Spartan boy with the fox biting him, which I hope you'll excuse my bringing up for of all the tiresome boys that will go tumbling into every sort of company that boy's the tiresomest.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's proper to use good words, and improve your vocabi-lary,' returned Amy, with dignity.
-- 'She will be back soon, I think, so fry your cakes, and have everything ready,' said Meg, looking over the pres-ents which were collected in a basket and kept under the sofa, ready to be produced at the proper time.
-- 'I like his manners, and he looks like a little gentleman, so I've no objection to your knowing him, if a proper oppor-tunity comes.
-- 'How do you learn all the proper ways?
-- 'Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them,' added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.
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