acceptable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可接受的， 合意的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea was so acceptable in the prevalent absence of any idea, that the crowd caught it up with eagerness, and loudly repeating the suggestion to have 'em out, and to pull 'em out, mobbed the two vehicles so closely that they came to a stop.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he been an acceptable hero, like Major Rippleton Holabird, he would have chucked the contents of the flask into the sink, avowed with pretty modesty, "Silly!I've made some error!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Doctor's desire that Annieshould be entertained was therefore particularly acceptable to thisexcellent parent; who expressed unqualified approval of hisdiscretion.
-- 'On the voyage, I shall endeavour,' said Mr. Micawber,'occasionally to spin them a yarn; and the melody of my sonWilkins will, I trust, be acceptable at the galley-fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.
-- To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.
-- She must know as well as her father, how acceptable an instrument would be; and perhaps the mode of it, the mystery, the surprize, is more like a young woman's scheme than an elderly man's.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mules could not be spared to go off to war, even ifthey had been acceptable for the Troop, which they emphatically were not.
-- James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughtersamong their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.
-- That wasabout the only excuse that was socially acceptable for not nursing these days.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's true, Pip; and unless you was to turn her out a set of shoes all four round,--and which I meantersay as even a set of shoes all four round might not be acceptable as a present, in a total wacancy of hoofs--""I don't mean that sort of remembrance, Joe; I don't mean a present."
-- And I should be false and base if I did not tell you, whether it is acceptable to you or no, and whether you are inclined to give credence to it or no, that you deeply wrong both Mr. Matthew Pocket and his son Herbert, if you suppose them to be otherwise than generous, upright, open, and incapable of anything designing or mean."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell me, Mr Dorrit, what surprise would be the most unlooked for and the most acceptable to you.
-- That exaggeration in the manner of the man which has been noticed as appertaining to him and to every such man, whatever his original breeding, as certainly as the sun belongs to this system, was acceptable to Gowan as a caricature, which he found it a humorous resource to have at hand for the ridiculing of numbers of people who necessarily did more or less of what Blandois overdid.
-- They were acceptable to me, because they echoed my own mind, and confirmed my own knowledge.
-- 'Further, I am a gentleman to whom mere mercenary trade-bargains are unknown, but to whom money is always acceptable as the means of pursuing his pleasures.
-- When the lion is awakened that is to say, when I enrage the satisfaction of my animosity is as acceptable to me as money.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her ladyship received them civilly, but it was plain that their company was by no means so acceptable as when she could get nobody else; and she was, in fact, almost en-grossed by her nephews, speaking to them, especially to Darcy, much more than to any other person in the room.
-- These parties were acceptable to all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did think, than such as did not.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But,' says the old man, 'I have one piece of news to tell you, which perhaps may not be so acceptable to you as the rest; and that is, believing you were lost, and all the world believing so also, your partner and trustees did offer to ac-count with me, in your name, for the first six or eight years' profits, which I received.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some little present of furniture too may be acceptable then."
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