proposition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 主张， 建议； 陈述， 命题，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：
-- A telegram next day gave hope of his speedy return, but in the evening a letter apprised her of the difficulties his proposition had met with, and the morning after brought another, in which he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Admiralty.
-- This proposition was partly made by gestures, and partly by a few Spanish words which Paganel managed to make out.
-- Thalcave had not waited for Glenarvan's proposition to prepare an encampment.
-- When John Mangles supported the proposition of Paganel, he took for granted that he should accompany the expedition.
-- This unexpected proposition was greeted with astonishment, and by John Mangles with openly-expressed opposition.
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：
-- The proposition took me completely by surprise, but be-fore I had time to answer, Baskerville seized me by the hand and wrung it heartily.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was agreeable to feel the power of authority over so vast an estate, and it was disagreeable, because in his youth he was an enthusiastic adherent of Herbert Spencer, and being himself a large land owner, was struck by the proposition in Social Statics that private ownership of land is contrary to the dictates of justice.
-- One declared the proposition profitable and safe; the other saw in the proposition a plot which it feared the more because it could not understand it.
-- On the third day, however, the proposition was accepted, the fears of the peasants having been allayed by an old woman who explained the master's action by the suggestion that he began to think of saving his soul.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was another proposition nearly, if not quite, as disturbing.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had the audacity to make such a proposition as that to me!
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