able是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有(能力、 时间、 知识等) 做某事， 有本事的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now.
-- Now, it wasn't,' cried Bob,' for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope you may be able to think so well of me, as to urge no influence against me.
-- 'If you come to advancing you know,' said Mr. Lorry, de-lighted to be able to make another admission, 'nobody can doubt that.'
-- If I, as a honest tradesman, am able to provide a little beer, none of your declaring on water.
-- Without doubt it is safe, for no one beyond our-selves can decipher it; but shall we always be able to decipher it or, I ought to say, will she?'
-- The spy had kept his eyes open, but had been able to detect no sign.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
-- Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
-- There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entirely in charac-ter, and with the same tone of voice, that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.
-- One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it 40 Andersen's Fairy Taleswere but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said to himself; and an inner voice told him he must not go, that nothing could come of it but falsity; that to amend, to set right their relations was impossible, because it was impossible to make her attractive again and able to inspire love, or to make him an old man, not susceptible to love.
-- And immediately he recollected his brother Nikolay and how hateful he was to have been able to forget him.
-- That you know-- whether there is enough for you to be able to forgive him.
-- But she was in the middle stage between these two; she was excited, and at the same time she had sufficient self-possession to be able to observe.
-- Anna had heard nothing of this act, And she felt conscience-stricken at having been able so readily to forget what was to him of such importance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, gentlemen," said he, "I'm off, you see; and, if you will examine my passport when I get back, you will be able to judge whether I have accomplished the journey agreed upon."
-- This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
-- But really, I don't see how, from the description you have, you will be able to recognise your man, even if he is on board the Mongolia."
-- At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet.
-- Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee; but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm not doing a thing, he said, and if I don't have my Ph.D., then I won't be able to land a nice job teaching English in some swell school, and I'd better land one, too, because it doesn't look to poor Madeline as if anybody was going to marry her."
-- II A long letter from Leora, hinting that she might not be able to return to Zenith, left him the more lonely.
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