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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then our most prudent course would be to keep toward the north," remarked Glenarvan.
-- I think it certainly more prudent to avoid this village of Ngarnavahia, to skirt it at a distance, so as to avoid all encounters with the natives.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When many are got together, you can be guided by him whose counsel is wisest and sorely do we need shrewd and prudent counsel, for the foe has lit his watchfires hard by our ships.
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：
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
-- We will follow with a small guard, for such respect is due to one who holds the honor of his king in keeping; and hark'ee, Duncan,' he added, in a half whisper, though they were alone, 'it may be prudent to have some aid at hand, in case there should be treachery at the bottom of it all.'
-- A light figure preceded the rest of the party, with the caution and activity of a native; ascending every hillock to reconnoiter, and indicating by gestures, to his companions, the route he deemed it most prudent to pur-sue.
-- The Sagamore is of the high blood of the Delawares, and is the great chief of their Tortoises!That some of this stock are among the people of whom the sing-er tells us, is plain by his words; and, had he but spent half the breath in prudent questions that he has blown away in making a trumpet of his throat, we might have known how many warriors they numbered.
-- Unfortunately for this prudent resolu-tion, his entertainers appeared otherwise disposed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at the moment of starting, Herbert observed, that since they had no tinder, it would perhaps be prudent to replace it by another substance.
-- It was very certain that the thick forests of the island were inhabited by dangerous animals, and it was prudent to be on their guard.
-- "We needed a locker, and now we have one," said Pencroft; "but as we cannot lock it up, it will be prudent to hide the opening.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some people by prudent management and leaving it off piece by piece like a flannel waistcoat in warm weather, even contrive, in time, to dispense with it altogether; but there be others who can assume the garment and throw it off at pleasure; and this, being the greatest and most convenient improvement, is the one most in vogue.
-- Mr Brass had evidently a strong inclination to make an angry reply, but was deterred by prudent or timid considerations, as he only muttered something about aggravation and a vagabond; not associating the terms with any individual, but mentioning them as connected with some abstract ideas which happened to occur to him.
-- Nobody was rendered more indignant by these proceedings than Mr Sampson Brass, who, as he could by no means afford to lose so profitable an inmate, deemed it prudent to pocket his lodger's affront along with his cash, and to annoy the audiences who clustered round his door by such imperfect means of retaliation as were open to him, and which were confined to the trickling down of foul water on their heads from unseen watering pots, pelting them with fragments of tile and mortar from the roof of the house, and bribing the drivers of hackney cabriolets to come suddenly round the corner and dash in among them precipitately.
-- With deference to the better opinion of Mr Brass, and more particularly to the authority of his Great Ancestor, it may be doubted, with humility, whether the elevating principle laid down by the latter gentleman, and acted upon by his descendant, is always a prudent one, or attended in practice with the desired results.
-- His wife, who had retreated lest she should seem to listen to these mutterings, ventured to approach him again, and was about to speak, when he hurried to the door, and called Tom Scott, who, remembering his late gentle admonition, deemed it prudent to appear immediately.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, it would not be prudent to carry the electric light in these waters; its brilliancy might attract some of the dangerous inhabitants of the coast most inopportunely."
-- Conseil, more prudent or more steady, did not stumble, and helped me up, saying:"If, sir, you would have the kindness to take wider steps, you would preserve your equilibrium better."
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