practicable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可实行的, 能用的, 可行的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On questioning the CATAPEZ on the subject, he replied:"There are only two practicable passes that I know of in this part of the Cordilleras."
-- "No, not if there is a practicable route across Australia."
-- Ayrton looked about for a practicable ford.
-- It was a steeply-shelving shore, fringed with breakers; a practicable landing-place had to be discovered.
-- The "overland track" passes that point, and is rather a path than a road, practicable for the vehicles which go almost across the island, from Napier, in Hawke's Bay, to Auckland.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reckoned then we should have eight hours to swim before sunrise, an operation quite practicable if we relieved each other.
-- A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of gigantic blocks, an enormous, steep granite shore, forming dark grottos, but which presented no practicable slope; it was the prop of the Island of Crespo.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me so himself, and so did Aglaya Ivanovna, and I have come on purpose to warn you' but even that did not seem quite a legitimate or practicable thing to do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he did not find it practicable to arrest Fogg at Hong Kong, and if Fogg made preparations to leave that last foothold of English territory, he, Fix, would tell Passepartout all.
-- Did he examine to see if there were any practicable outlet from his prison?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, in retracing their steps so as to find some practicable path, much time was employed and fatigue undergone for nothing.
-- It was by this that the water escaped; and this time it was not an oblique and practicable passage, but a perpendicular well, into which it was impossible to venture.
-- In fact, the tides of the Pacific, even at their maximum elevation, could never reach the level of the river, and, doubtless, millions of years would pass before the water would have worn away the granite and hollowed a practicable mouth.
-- Whoever it was, the only thing practicable was to do as the engineer proposed, to go to the Chimneys and there wait for day.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conver-sation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room.
-- While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might be-come an increase of comfort to him. How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision; how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any pos-sible atonement; how to appear least her enemy? On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surround-ed it. She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and indulging in one scheme more nearly resolve, that 532 Emmait might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Bruns-wick Square. Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amuse-ment. She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children. At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct, and Bathsheba was astonishing all around her now, for her philosophy was her conduct, and she seldom thought practicable what she did not practise.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We changed, and I had not made up my mind, and still reflected for my comfort that it would be quite practicable to get down and walk back, when we changed again.
-- So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a fine sight, to behold the learned dog barking round it, and Mr. Sleary instructing him, with his one practicable eye, that Bitzer was the object of his particular attentions.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the first, which was so vastly big, for I made it without considering beforehand, as I ought to have done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I was obliged to let it lie where it was as a memorandum to teach me to be wiser the next time: in-deed, the next time, though I could not get a tree proper for it, and was in a place where I could not get the water to it at any less distance than, as I have said, near half a mile, yet, as I saw it was practicable at last, I never gave it over; and though I was near two years about it, yet I never grudged my labour, in hopes of having a boat to go off to sea at last.
-- I would have been very glad to have had my boat again on my side of the island; but I knew not how it was practicable to get it about.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was very far from wishing to dwell on her own feelings, or to represent herself as suffering much, any otherwise than as the self-command she had practised since her first knowledge of Edward's engagement, might suggest a hint of what was practicable to Marianne.
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