invalid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无效的, 作废的; 无根据的 n. 病人, 病弱者; a. 病弱的, 伤残的，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：
-- An invalid lady had already lain down to sleep.
-- Of these people the one that attracted her most was a Russian girl who had come to the watering- place with an invalid Russian lady, Madame Stahl, as everyone called her.
-- Madame Stahl belonged to the highest society, but she was so ill that she could not walk, and only on exceptionally fine days made her appearance at the springs in an invalid carriage.
-- "Oh, here's Madame Stahl," said Kitty, indicating an invalid carriage, where, propped on pillows, something in gray and blue was lying under a sunshade.
-- "Oh, these invalid ladies!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- which was his natural reaction, and explained that he was speaking for Leora's invalid grand-aunt, that the poor old lady was very low, and if the night superintendent cared to take upon himself the murder of a blameless gentlewoman-- When Leora came to the telephone he said quickly, and soberly now, feeling as though he had come from the menace of thronging strangers into the security of her presence: "Leora?
-- II Mrs. McCandless had once been a "hired girl"; then nurse, then confidante, then wife to the invalid Mr. McCandless, wholesale grocer and owner of real estate.
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：
-- But shall I not disturb the invalid by mypresence and conversation?'
-- He declared that he thought the invalid at this moment go-ing on very satisfactorily.
-- They say, too, the girl was not at all pretty, in fact I am told posi-tively ugly 芒聙娄 and such an invalid 芒聙娄 and queer.
-- Sometimes days and even weeks of gloomy silence and tears would be succeeded by a period of hysterical animation, and the invalid would begin to talk almost incessantly of her son, of her hopes of his future芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Onher return, she brought a message, to the effect that Mrs. Steerforthwas an invalid and could not come down; but, that if I wouldexcuse her being in her chamber, she would be glad to see me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!it shews what a sad invalid I am!But I do not like the corner into Vicarage Lane.'
-- Her present home, he could not but observe, was unfavourable to a nervous disorder: confined always to one room; he could have wished it otherwise and her good aunt, though his very old friend, he must acknowledge to be not the best compan-ion for an invalid of that description.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, Mr. Stephens couldn't help how he looked for he had been an invalid all his life, but Mr. Davis Shelooked up at the cameo clean, proud face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He's an invalid now," replied Herbert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all the trouble that has been taken with you!After the lectures you have attended, and the experiments you have seen!After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!I wish,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, taking a chair, and discharging her strongest point before succumbing under these mere shadows of facts, 'yes, I really do wish that I had never had a family, and then you would have known what it was to do without me!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the mot a nervous invalid in the last few months of her life, she wanted her girls to be 'free', and to 'fulfil themselves'.
-- 'Here is the address of a good manservant, who was with an invalid patient of the doctor's till he died last month.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the invalid had eaten all the rusks and drunk all the mixture, the two trays were removed; and the books and the candle, watch, handkerchief, and spectacles were replaced upon the table.
-- In the intervals of roasting the partridge for the invalid chamber, and preparing a baking-dish of beef and pudding for the dining-room, Mrs Affery made the communications above set forth; invariably putting her head in at the door again after she had taken it out, to enforce resistance to the two clever ones.
-- The business hours, allowing for intervals of invalid regimen of oysters and partridges, during which Clennam refreshed himself with a walk, were from ten to six for about a fortnight.
-- As the room-ridden invalid settled for the night, these would gradually disappear: Mistress Affery's magnified shadow always flitting about, last, until it finally glided away into the air, as though she were off upon a witch excursion.
-- Mrs Flintwinch goes on DreamingThe house in the city preserved its heavy dulness through all these transactions, and the invalid within it turned the same unvarying round of life.
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