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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
-- This proposal was agreed to, and John Mangles and Paganel prepared to start immediately.
-- Paganel's proposal was to take the ship in question, and get to Auckland, whence it would be easy to return to Europe by the boats of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Louisa, my dear, you are the subject of a proposal of marriage that has been made to me.'
-- This so far surprised him, as to induce him gently to repeat, 'a proposal of marriage, my dear.'
-- Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you, and to express his hope that you will take it into your favourable consideration.'
-- 'Father,' she returned, almost scornfully, 'what other proposal can have been made to me?
-- 'The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale ''Why, of course it is,' said Bounderby.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was 'a doosed fine gal well educated too with no biggodd nonsense about her.'
-- The proposal originated with himself, and was couched in the pithy terms, 'If your John is weak enough, ma'am, not to take it, that is no reason why you should be, don't you see?
-- His proposal of marriage being accepted by the lady, the commissary took his seat behind the proprieties with great decorum, and Mrs General drove until the commissary died.
-- Mrs General being an article of that lustrous surface which suggests that it is worth any money, he made a formal proposal to be allowed to have the honour and pleasure of regarding her as a member of his family.
-- Tea was over, and the children were abed, and Mrs Plornish was feeling her way to the dutiful proposal that her father should favour them with Chloe, when the bell rang again, and Mr Clennam came in.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of be-ing carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.
-- Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce de-layed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.
-- This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and Mr. Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.
-- Is there one among the sex, who would not protest against such a weak-ness as a second proposal to the same woman?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened, being in company with some merchants and planters of my acquaintance, and talking of those things very earnestly, three of them came to me next morn-ing, and told me they had been musing very much upon what I had discoursed with them of the last night, and they came to make a secret proposal to me; and, after enjoining me to secrecy, they told me that they had a mind to fit out a ship to go to Guinea; that they had all plantations as well as I, and were straitened for nothing so much as servants; that as it was a trade that could not be carried on, because they could not publicly sell the negroes when they came home, so they desired to make but one voyage, to bring the negroes on shore privately, and divide them among their own plantations; and, in a word, the question was whether I would go their supercargo in the ship, to manage the trad-ing part upon the coast of Guinea; and they offered me that I should have my equal share of the negroes, without pro-viding any part of the stock.
-- I asked him how he thought they would receive a proposal from me, which might tend towards an escape; and wheth-er, if they were all here, it might not be done.
-- The captain made a very just proposal to me upon this consultation of theirs, viz.
-- Any one may guess how readily such a proposal would be accepted by men in their condition; they fell down on their knees to the captain, and promised, with the deep-est imprecations, that they would be faithful to him to the last drop, and that they should owe their lives to him, and would go with him all over the world; that they would own him as a father to them as long as they lived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this state of her spirits, a letter was delivered to her from the post, which contained a proposal particularly well timed.
-- "Did not Colonel Brandon know of Sir John's proposal to your mother before it was made?
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