prudent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 谨慎的， 智慧的， 稳健的， 节俭的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but then how often the happiness of these prudent marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A brisk breeze arose about ten o'clock; but, though it might have been prudent to take in a reef, the pilot, after carefully examining the heavens, let the craft remain rigged as before.
-- "It would be prudent for us to retire," said Fix, who was anxious that Mr. Fogg should not receive any injury, at least until they got back to London.
-- It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
-- It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am bound to state to you,' he said, with an official air, 'that thebusiness habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber,have in a great measure conduced to this result.
-- Iwas heartily tired of being sagacious and prudent by myself, andof seeing my darling under restraint; so, I bought a pretty pair ofear-rings for her, and a collar for Jip, and went home one day tomake myself agreeable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity and most prudent men would be afraid of the inconvenience and disgrace they might be involved in, when the mystery of her parentage came to be revealed.
-- Smiles of intelligence passed between her and the gentle-man on first glancing towards Miss Fairfax; but it was most prudent to avoid speech.
-- Harriet had business at Ford's. Emma thought it most prudent to go with her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the present, under the circumstances, we deemed it prudent to make rather light of the matter to Trabb's boy; who, I am convinced, would have been much affected by disappointment, if he had known that his intervention saved me from the limekiln.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- I drew it out, and at his desire, as well as I could, expressed to him the use of it; and charging it only with powder, which, by the close-ness of my pouch, happened to escape wetting in the sea (an inconvenience against which all prudent mariners take spe-cial care to provide,) I first cautioned the emperor not to be afraid, and then I let it off in the air.
-- By which the reader may con-ceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.
-- He took me up in his right fore-foot and held me 149as a nurse does a child she is going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe; and when I offered to struggle he squeezed me so hard, that I thought it more prudent to submit.
-- I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and land.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world.
-- HEARING THE LAST OF ITMrs. Sparsit, lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in Mr. Bounderby's retreat, kept such a sharp look-out, night and day, under her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of lighthouses on an iron-bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners from that bold rock her Roman nose and the dark and craggy region in its neighbourhood, but for the placidity of her manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans, however, did not think it prudent to pass the night on the bare side of the cone.
-- This connecting link was doubtless a prudent precaution, but not by any means unattended with danger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Chivery, a prudent woman, had desired her husband to take notice that their John's prospects of the Lock would certainly be strengthened by an alliance with Miss Dorrit, who had herself a kind of claim upon the College and was much respected there.
-- When the prudent Mrs Chivery perceived that in addition to these adornments her John carried a pair of white kid gloves, and a cane like a little finger-post, surmounted by an ivory hand marshalling him the way that he should go; and when she saw him, in this heavy marching order, turn the corner to the right; she remarked to Mr Chivery, who was at home at the time, that she thought she knew which way the wind blew.
-- (I mention that merely as a fact which is part of the narrative, and not as supposing it to have influenced your sister, except in the prudent and legitimate way in which, constituted as our artificial system is, we must all be influenced by such considerations.)
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