reliable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可靠的, 可信赖的，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He-he-he!Though, indeed, all those psychological means of defence are not very reliable and cut both ways: illness, de-lirium, I don't remember that's all right, but why, my good sir, in your illness and in your delirium were you haunted by just those delusions and not by any others?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Excellency,' he said, impulsively, 'if you want a reliable man for the night, I am ready to sacrifice myself for my friend such a soul as he has!I have long thought him a great man, excellency!My article showed my lack of educa-tion, but when he criticizes he scatters pearls!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Young John, who had never seen her bereft of her quiet self-command, who had seen her from her infancy ever so reliable and self-suppressed, there was a shock in her distress, and in having to associate himself with it as its cause, that shook him from his great hat to the pavement.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
-- Those books are Beale's and Bennett's; both in their time surgeons to English South-Sea whale-ships, and both exact and reliable men.
-- The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.
-- The strongest and most reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside, is by the flukes or tail; and as from its greater density that part is relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface; so that with the hand you cannot get at it from the boat, in order to put the chain round it.
-- So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land.
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