appropriate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 合适的; v. 挪用; 拨款，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：
-- Without the least hesitation I determined to appropriate the DUNCAN, a matchless vessel, able to outdistance the swiftest ships in the British Navy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was appropriate and funny then, has quite lost all in-terest by this time.'
-- 'And only you, prince, could have found so very appropriate an expression.
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：
-- Such memorials of the passage and struggles of man are yet frequent throughout the broad barrier of wilderness which once separated the hostile provinces, and form a species of ruins that are intimate-ly associated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy charac-ter of the surrounding scenery.
-- The place which had been chosen for the grave of Cora was a little knoll, where a cluster of young and healthful pines had taken root, forming of themselves a melancholy and appropriate shade over the spot.
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：
-- I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.
-- Brueghel gave me the impression of a man striving to express in one medium feelings more appropriate to expression in another, and it may be that it was the obscure consciousness of this that excited Strickland's sympathy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll give you, Fred,' said his friend, stirring the mixture, 'a little sentiment appropriate to the occasion.
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arrangement made for the Kusminskoie estate was to remain in force, only there remained to be determined what part of the rent he was to appropriate to himself, and what was to be left for the benefit of the peasants.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I tried talk, and found that her name was Weena, which, though I don't know what it meant, somehow seemed appropriate enough.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards midnight, however, it disappeared, or, to use a more appropriate term, it "died out" like a large glow-worm.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate to the gentle lovers who 'went on together like a pair of turtledoves, with first a bill and then a coo'.
-- Her story was as full of des-peration and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and hav-ing located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The undertaker, who had just putup the shutters of his shop, was making some entries in his day-book by the light of a most appropriate dismal candle, when Mr. Bumble entered.
-- There was nobody inside but a miserable shoeless criminal, who had been taken up for playing the flute, and who, the offence against society having been clearly proved, had been very properly committed by Mr. Fang to the House of Correction for one month; with the appropriate and amusing remark that since he had so much breath to spare, it would be more wholesomely expended on the treadmill than in a musical instrument.
-- This was merely intended as a tribute to the animal's abilities, but it was an appropriate remark in another sense, if Master Bates had only known it; for there are a good many ladies and gentlemen, claiming to be out-and-out Christians, between whom, and Mr. Sikes' dog, there exist strong and singular points of resemblance.
-- Mr. Giles had risen from his seat, and taken two steps with his eyes shut, to accompany his description with appropriate action, when he started violently, in common with the rest of the company, and hurried back to his chair.
-- Only first exchange that nightcap for some more appropriate covering, or we shall be taken for madmen.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your mother has brought on herself a most appropriate punishment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact that such ability should reveal itself in her, that they should see it set forth under such effective circumstances, framed almost in massy gold and shone upon by the appropriate lights of sentiment and personality, heightened her charm for them.
-- Tuesday came, and with it appropriate indecision and speculation.
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