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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing but a sharp recall from Glenarvan kept the boy in proper order.
-- In order to ensure a proper draught, Paganel stood over the hearth with his long legs straddled out in the Arab manner.
-- Any industrious man, by proper cultivation, can not only get a living out of his lot, but lay by pounds 80 a year.
-- Ayrton thought proper to go too, and about four o'clock the party came over the side of the DUNCAN.
-- The leader, or to give him his proper designation, the stock-keeper, was part owner of the drove.
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：
-- 'Life,' for example is quite out of its proper place.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hey, my boy, we'll get her some proper earrings now!We'll get her such earrings that ' 'Look here,' cried Rogojin, seizing him fiercely by the arm, 'look here, if you so much as name Nastasia Philipov-na again, I'll tan your hide as sure as you sit there!'
-- 'Why, my dear fellow, it's not a question of your rejecting her, it is whether you are prepared to receive her consent joyfully, and with proper satisfaction.
-- However, I hope I shall not interfere with the proper se-quence of my narrative too much, if I diverge for a moment at this point, in order to explain the mutual relations be-tween General Epanchin's family and others acting a part in this history, at the time when we take up the thread of their destiny.
-- One's conscience very soon informs one what is the proper narrative to tell.
-- It was, however, soon recognized as a case of epilep-sy, and identification and proper measures for restoration followed one another, owing to a fortunate circumstance.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men regarding the contents of the place, and for some time I was thinking of that and of the unaccountable familiarity of the name of Moreau; but so odd is the hu-man memory that I could not then recall that well-known name in its proper connection.
-- He had an idea, I believe, that to gabble about names that meant nothing was the proper use of speech.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have al-lowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
-- By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.
-- That is the proper time.
-- The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there's just room enough for your hoofs.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not immediately able to say anything, and even when her spirits were recovered, she debated for a short time, on the answer it would be most proper to give.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject--the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.
-- Rector's, with its polished marble walls and floor, its profusion of lights, its show of china and silverware, and, above all, its reputation as a resort for actors and professional men, seemed to him the proper place for a successful man to go.
-- Yet no beggar could have caught his eye and said, "My God, mister, I'm starving," but he would gladly have handed out what was considered the proper portion to give beggars and thought no more about it.
-- She went about among the glass cases and racks where these things were displayed, and satisfied herself that the one she thought of was the proper one.
-- Then he would lock his own little office and set the proper light burning near the safe, after which he would take his departure.
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