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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general valued the proposal very highly.
-- He thought that she wanted him to approach her with a humble proposal from his own side, But to his great, and not entirely pleasurable amazement, he discov-ered that this was by no means the case, and that were he to offer himself he would be refused.
-- ), and informed me, in reply to my proposal of marriage, that she 'did not want condescending sympathy or help from anybody.'
-- This project consisted in a proposal to occupy the Kremlin with the whole army; to arm and fortify it scientifically, to kill as many horses as could be got, and salt their flesh, and spend the winter there; and in spring to fight their way out.
-- But then, for the mere sake of vindi-cating her worthiness of sympathy, you should not have insulted and offended a noble and generous girl in her pres-ence!This is a terrible exaggeration of sympathy!How can you love a girl, and yet so humiliate her as to throw her over for the sake of another woman, before the very eyes of that other woman, when you have already made her a formal proposal of marriage?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing to-gether among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However revolting a proposal of such a character might prove to Cora, she retained, notwithstanding her powerful disgust, sufficient self-command to reply, without betray-ing the weakness.
-- While she was shrink-ing within herself, in dread of having her ears wounded by some proposal still more shocking than the last, the voice of Magua answered, in its tones of deepest malignancy: 'When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
-- His proposal was received with acclamations, and executed with the swiftness of thought.
-- Perhaps there was something in the proposal that suit-ed his own hardy nature, and that secret love of desperate adventure, which had increased with his experience, until hazard and danger had become, in some measure, necessary to the enjoyment of his existence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
-- The engineer's proposal was unanimously agreed to by his companions.
-- The engineer's proposal was replied to by three hurrahs.
-- The proposal was accepted, and in a few minutes Herbert and Neb were on the upper plateau.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is sufficient to know that vanity, interest, poverty, and every spendthrift consideration urged him to look upon the proposal with favour, and that where all other inducements were wanting, the habitual carelessness of his disposition stepped in and still weighed down the scale on the same side.
-- Kit, who knew no particular reason why he should keep the matter secret now, related the purpose for which he had come on that occasion, and the proposal he had made.
-- Kit rising and putting his hand to his hat, the old gentleman intimated to the pony that he wished to stop, to which proposal the pony (who seldom objected to that part of his duty) graciously acceded.
-- Even Mr Codlin had nothing to urge against a proposal so seasonable.
-- The constable, taking warning by this desperate attack, and thinking perhaps that it would be more satisfactory to the ends of justice if the prisoner were taken before a magistrate, whole, rather than in small pieces, led him back to the hackney-coach without more ado, and moreover insisted on Miss Brass becoming an outside passenger; to which proposal the charming creature, after a little angry discussion, yielded her consent; and so took her brother Sampson's place upon the box: Mr Brass with some reluctance agreeing to occupy her seat inside.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George Merry was at the door, spitting and spluttering over some bad-tasted medicine; but at the first word of the doctor's proposal he swung round with a deep flush and cried "No!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO'SOn the 28th of February, when at noon the Nautilus came to the surface of the sea, in 9脗掳 4' N.
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