tolerable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可忍受的, 可容许的, 尚好的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
-- 'Yes, sir, if the weather holds and the wind sets tolerable fair.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He considered human life only tolerable abroad, and went abroad to stay at every opportunity, and at the same time he carried on a complex and improved system of agriculture in Russia, and with extreme interest followed everything and knew everything that was being done in Russia.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In summer Leora and he drove to the Pony River for picnic suppers and a swim, very noisy, splashing, and immodest; through autumn he went duck-hunting with Bert Tozer, who became nearly tolerable when he stood at sunset on a pass between two slews; and with winter isolating the village in a sun-blank desert of snow, they had sleigh-rides, card-parties, "sociables" at the churches.
-- Some of them were remarkably agreeable: No Smoking became a jaunty and agreeable "gnikoms on," and Broadway was tolerable as "yawdaorb," but he was displeased by his attempts on Punch, Health, Rough; while Strength, turning into "htgnerts" was abominable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You do not know it I dare say, but two or three years ago I had a great passion for tak-ing likenesses, and attempted several of my friends, and was thought to have a tolerable eye in general.
-- A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.'
-- 'I wish we could contrive it,' said she; 'but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in; no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper no message from my father.'
-- She then broke the lace off short, and dex-terously throwing it into a ditch, was presently obliged to entreat them to stop, and acknowledged her inability to put herself to rights so as to be able to walk home in tolerable comfort.
-- She had never been quite well since the time of their daughter's marriage; and till she should have completely re-covered her usual strength, they must forbid her engaging in duties, which, so far from being compatible with a weak-ened frame and varying spirits, seemed, under the most favourable circumstances, to require something more than human perfection of body and mind to be discharged with tolerable comfort.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GABRIEL'S RESOLVE THE VISIT THE MISTAKEThe only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody knew that she herself possessed forty thousand francs, accumulated _sou by sou_, that was her secret; surely as far as money was concerned she was a very tolerable match.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced 134 Frankensteinsuch words as I understood with tolerable ease.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Consequence, my father didn't make objections to my going to work; so I went to work at my present calling, which were his too, if he would have followed it, and I worked tolerable hard, I assure you, Pip.
-- It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships.
-- I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable sup-ply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
-- In about a month's time, I had made a tolerable profi-ciency in their language, and was able to answer most of the king's questions, when I had the honour to attend him.
-- It was at first a very insipid diet, though common enough in many parts of Europe, but grew tolerable by time; and hav-ing been often reduced to hard fare in my life, this was not the first experiment I had made how easily nature is satis-fied.
-- In about ten weeks time, I was able to understand most of his questions; and in three months, could give him some tolerable answers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the aid of a little more coaching for the political sages, a little more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty, most effective and most patronized of the polite deadly sins, he speedily came to be considered of much promise.
-- As he had rather a long ride to take that day for there was a public occasion 'to do' at some distance, which afforded a tolerable opportunity of going in for the Gradgrind men he dressed early and went down to breakfast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may conceive that the whole made a tolerable parcel, especially when I mention that the ladder itself was three hundred feet long!
-- My uncle and I came behind, cutting a very tolerable figure upon our small but vigorous animals.
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