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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was fatherly; almost he made Martin repent; but he concluded, "And as for Clawson, his 'joke' regarding this Benoni Carr person--and why I never looked the fellow up is beyond me, I suppose I was too busy--his 'joke,' as you call it, was the action either of an idiot or a blackguard, and until you are able to perceive that fact, I don't think you will be ready to come back to us."
-- They were so blank, so creepily polite, that Martin was able to avoid such unpleasant subjects as being suspended.
-- Mrs. Tozer wept, and said that she hoped Ory had not, for certain reasons, HAD to be married-- Bert said that if such was the case, he'd kill Martin-- Ada Quist said that Ory could now see what came of pride and boasting about going off to her old Zenith-- Mr. Tozer said that there was one good thing about it, anyway: Ory could see for herself that they couldn't let her go back to nursing school and get into more difficulties-- Martin from time to time offered remarks to the effect that he was a good young man, a wonderful bacteriologist, and able to take care of HIS wife; but no one save Leora listened.
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 now, thank God, I believe I shall be able to send you something more and in fact we may con-gratulate ourselves on our good fortune now, of which I 48 Crime and Punishmenthasten to inform you.
-- Now that ev-eryone has heard that Dounia is to marry Pyotr Petrovitch, my credit has suddenly improved and I know that Afanasy Ivanovitch will trust me now even to seventy-five roubles on the security of my pension, so that perhaps I shall be able to send you twenty-five or even thirty roubles.
-- So that I may very likely be able to send to you not twenty-five, but thir-ty roubles.
-- But why, he was always asking himself, why had such an important, such a decisive and at the same time such an absolutely chance meeting happened in the Hay Market (where he had more-over no reason to go) at the very hour, the very minute of his life when he was just in the very mood and in the very circumstances in which that meeting was able to exert the gravest and most decisive influence on his whole destiny?
-- You will be able to decide for yourself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on thissupposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me likethe boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way homeagain by the buttons she would shed.
-- Mrs. Gummidge did not appear to be able to cheer up.
-- And I shall be always near my pretty's resting-place,' saidPeggotty musing, 'and be able to see it when I like; and when I lie 136down to rest, I may be laid not far off from my darling girl!'
-- Take him forall in all, we ne'er shallin short, make the acquaintance, probably,of anybody else possessing, at his time of life, the same legs forgaiters, and able to read the same description of print, withoutspectacles.
-- He hasn't been able to draw it up yet, without introducingthat mode of expressing himself; but it don't signify; it keeps himemployed.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- He will be able to tell her how we all are.'
-- Her situation was altogether the subject of hours of grati-tude to Mrs. Weston, and of moments only of regret; and 20 Emmaher satisfaction -her more than satisfaction her cheerful enjoyment, was so just and so apparent, that Emma, well as she knew her father, was sometimes taken by surprize at his being still able to pity 'poor Miss Taylor,' when they left her at Randalls in the centre of every domestic comfort, or saw her go away in the evening attended by her pleasant hus-band to a carriage of her own.
-- These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself con-cerned, it was no remedy for the absence of Mrs. Weston.
-- He has not been able to get the Romance of the Forest yet.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had Gabriel been able from the first to get a distinct view of her countenance, his estimate of it as very handsome or slightly so would have been as his soul required a divinity at the moment or was ready supplied with one.
-- Gabriel's eyes had scarcely been able to follow her.
-- Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing he said no word at all.
-- I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know."
-- So, thinking of his misfortunes, amorous and pastoral, he fell asleep, shepherds enjoying, in common with sailors, the privilege of being able to summon the god instead of having to wait for him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew or guessed the concerns of every one about him; but none of them had been able to penetrate his thoughts, or to discover his occupation.
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