proposal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 提议， 建议； 求婚，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：
-- Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall 201Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably fail-ing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.
-- 'I must say again, nonsense, nonsense!When I have exe-cuted this little commission, I shall, perhaps, accept Tellson's proposal to retire and live at my ease.
-- But for my great respect for your sister, I might not have led up so pleasantly to a little proposal that I wish to make for our mutual satisfaction.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as for the proposal made by Levin--to take a part as shareholder with his laborers in each agricultural undertaking-- at this the bailiff simply expressed a profound despondency, and offered no definite opinion, but began immediately talking of the urgent necessity of carrying the remaining sheaves of rye the next day, and of sending the men out for the second ploughing, so that Levin felt that this was not the time for discussing it.
-- The proposal of the learned and intellectual Sergey Ivanovitch to go looking for mushrooms with Varenka confirmed certain theories of Kitty's with which her mind had been very busy of late.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their anxiety was becoming intense; but, not wishing to betray it, they readily assented to Mr. Fallentin's proposal of a rubber.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the "aggies" use the North Side Tennis Courts), but in private life he was less decorous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt receivedthis proposal so very ungraciously, that he never ventured on asecond; but ever afterwards confined himself to looking watchfullyat her for her suggestions, and rattling his money.
-- When you became engaged to the young ladywhom you have just mentioned, did you make a regular proposal 548to her family?
-- Among this correspondence, there dropped in, every now andthen, an obliging proposal from one of the numerous outsidersalways lurking about the Commons, to practise under cover of myname (if I would take the necessary steps remaining to make aproctor of myself), and pay me a percentage on the profits.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet was soon back again, and the proposal almost 52 Emmaimmediately made; and she had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.
-- Yes, quite a proposal of marriage; and a very good letter, at least she thought so.
-- Here ceased the concert part of the evening, for Miss Woodhouse and Miss Fairfax were the only young lady performers; but soon (within five min-utes) the proposal of dancing originating nobody exactly knew where was so effectually promoted by Mr. and Mrs. Cole, that every thing was rapidly clearing away, to give proper space.
-- I bring a new proposal on the subject: a thought of my fa-ther's, which waits only your approbation to be acted upon.
-- If Mr. Knightley did not begin seriously, he was obliged to proceed so, for his proposal was caught at with delight; and the 'Oh!I should like it of all things,' was not plainer in words than manner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He regarded the red berries between them over and over again, to such an extent, that holly seemed in his after life to be a cypher signifying a proposal of marriage.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must think her a foolif he offered her a proposition like that, instead of the proposal of matrimony she had been expecting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I declined the proposal on the plea of an appointment, he was so good as to take me into a yard and show me where the gallows was kept, and also where people were publicly whipped, and then he showed me the Debtors' Door, out of which culprits came to be hanged; heightening the interest of that dreadful portal by giving me to understand that "four on 'em" would come out at that door the day after to-morrow at eight in the morning, to be killed in a row.
-- I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
-- In my confidence in my own resources, I would willingly have taken Herbert's expenses on myself; but Herbert was proud, and I could make no such proposal to him.
-- The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This proposal was received with the utmost disapproba-tion by the whole board.
-- A proposal for correcting modern maps.
-- He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected.
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