regulate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 控制, 管理; 调整, 调节，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is difficult to understand how, possessed of these combined attractions, she should remain Miss Brass; but whether she had steeled her heart against mankind, or whether those who might have wooed and won her, were deterred by fears that, being learned in the law, she might have too near her fingers' ends those particular statutes which regulate what are familiarly termed actions for breach, certain it is that she was still in a state of celibacy, and still in daily occupation of her old stool opposite to that of her brother Sampson.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
-- "All I want is to regulate labor."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You ought to regulate your watch at noon in each country."
-- "I regulate my watch?
-- "The rogue told me a lot of stories," repeated Passepartout, "about the meridians, the sun, and the moon!Moon, indeed!moonshine more likely!If one listened to that sort of people, a pretty sort of time one would keep!I was sure that the sun would some day regulate itself by my watch!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way, by means of a long rope reaching to the ground, which enabled them to regulate the motive power, they could rise in the basket to the door of Granite House.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not say it is so; but you will do well to consid-er whether it is so or not, and to regulate your behaviour accordingly.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
-- It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) *keeping*; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclina-tion, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: 'My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters with-in the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the es-tablished forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His coldness and reserve mortified her severely; she was vexed and half angry; but resolving to regulate her behaviour to him by the past rather than the present, she avoided every appearance of resentment or displeasure, and treated him as she thought he ought to be treated from the family connection.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You don't regulate anything that's connected with me.
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