decision是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 决定， 决心； 决议； 决策，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In three minutes, without pause or modification, she had written a letter to Boldwood, at his address beyond Casterbridge, saying mildly but firmly that she had well considered the whole subject he had brought before her and kindly given her time to decide upon; that her final decision was that she could not marry him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marry him, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, whoalmost burst with pride whenever he looked at her.
-- That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died ofold age and pining for his harem which had long since been eaten.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
-- The second was of an opinion directly contrary; 'to tax those qualities of body and mind, for which men chief-ly value themselves; the rate to be more or less, according to the degrees of excelling; the decision whereof should be 237left entirely to their own breast.'
-- After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.
-- 'Without the consent of this illustrious body, no law can be enacted, repealed, or altered: and these nobles have like-wise the decision of all our possessions, without appeal.'
-- He said, 'it was common, when two Yahoos discovered 332 Gulliver's Travelssuch a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third would take the advantage, and carry it away from them both;' which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to unde-ceive him; since the decision he mentioned was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plain-tiff and defendant there lost nothing beside the stone they contended for: whereas our courts of equity would never have dismissed the cause, while either of them had any thing left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Detaining her in his embrace, he said, 'I may assure you now, my favourite child, that I am made happy by the sound decision at which you have arrived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, Mr Clennam, perhaps I may ask you whether you have yet come to a decision where to go next?'
-- How the Circumlocution Office, in a Minute, number eight thousand seven hundred and forty, 'saw no reason to reverse the decision at which my lords had arrived.'
-- I have only just come to a decision to take one.
-- Nobody's State of MindIf Arthur Clennam had not arrived at that wise decision firmly to restrain himself from loving Pet, he would have lived on in a state of much perplexity, involving difficult struggles with his own heart.
-- Therefore Mr Henry Gowan would have clouded Clennam's mind, and would have been far oftener present to it than more agreeable persons and subjects but for the great prudence of his decision aforesaid.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inclination as well as perversi-ty made the decision easy, and being already much excited, Meg opposed the old lady with unusual spirit.
-- I know that I can carry it out perfectly well, if you and the girls will help a little, and I don't see why I can't if I'm willing to pay for it,' said Amy, with the decision which opposition was apt to change into obstinacy.
-- Which decision proved that her second tumble down the beanstalk had done her some good.
-- A short speech, but the quiet decision with which it was uttered contrasted curiously with the young speaker.
-- 'I'd take it manfully, and be respected if i couldn't be loved,' said Amy, with the decision of one who knew noth-ing about it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
-- A common man looking at this decision of the very learned Judge, might possibly object to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Oliver!He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day arrived at a decision which would exercise the most material influence over all his future fortunes.
-- Now, it so happened that Mr. Fang was at that moment perusing a leading article in a newspaper of the morning, adverting to some recent decision of his, and commending him, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, to the special and particular notice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.
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