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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The proper way,' said the camel.
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：
-- The longer his nap lasts the better it will be for him, as I doubt whether he can find a proper cover for such a shape on these rocks; and singing won't do any good with the Iroquois.'
-- at length broke from his compressed and trembling lips; 'ay, and they bear the spirit of Christianity; what might be right and proper in a redskin, may be sinful in a man who has not even a cross in blood to plead for his ignorance.
-- At the allusion to the injury which Duncan affected to believe had driven the Huron from his native tribe, a gleam of such ungov-ernable ferocity flashed from the other's eyes, as induced the adventurous speaker to believe he had struck the proper chord.
-- Eh, bien!monsieur,' he continued still speaking in French; 'though I should have been proud of receiving your commandant, I am very happy that he has seen proper to employ an officer so distin-guished, and who, I am sure, is so amiable, as yourself.'
-- Then where to seek a proper protector for you against the confu-sion and chances of such a scene?'
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：
-- Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness.
-- "You know already that I have no proper pride."
-- It represented Stroeve's idea of the proper environment for an artist.
-- He thought he would like to have a proper look at it, so he brought it along and set it on the easel.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This paste made regular "pipe-clay," with which they manufactured bowls, cups molded on stones of a proper size, great jars and pots to hold water, etc.
-- The important question of renewing their wardrobe would be treated of in the proper time and place.
-- "Ah!if we only had a proper boat and a good harpoon, I would say 'After the beast,' for he would be well worth the trouble of catching!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!It's a sensible and proper thing indeed, what Mrs George has said!'
-- The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and from grey to black, the room became perfectly dark and the end of the cigar a deep fiery red, but still Mr Quilp went on smoking and drinking in the same position, and staring listlessly out of window with the doglike smile always on his face, save when Mrs Quilp made some involuntary movement of restlessness or fatigue; and then it expanded into a grin of delight.
-- Say that Mrs Quilp lives five year, or only four, you'll be just the proper age for me.
-- 'A reminder, Fred, for to-night a small party of twenty, making two hundred light fantastic toes in all, supposing every lady and gentleman to have the proper complement.
-- That is the proper document, Sir.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is hardly proper for me to come here to put people out of temper," he thought, and, in an effort to be pleasant, he said that he would go with pleasure if the Princess were in a mood to receive him.
-- Having made an outline of a speech, which he was to deliver to the peasants the following day, Nekhludoff went to the manager's house, and after further deliberating upon the proper disposition of the stock, he calmly and contentedly retired to a room prepared for him in the large building.
-- Is it proper that peasants should overwork themselves without getting enough to eat, while we are living in such wasteful luxury?"
-- "The Senate only looks after the proper interpretation and application of the law."
-- "Would it be proper for me to follow her to Siberia?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Scientific people," proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, "know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.
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